The Lives of the Most Eminent English PoetsWarne, 1872 |
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... numbers ; " and have given such early proofs , not only of powers of language , but of comprehension of things , as to more tardy minds seems scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , since a ...
... numbers ; " and have given such early proofs , not only of powers of language , but of comprehension of things , as to more tardy minds seems scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , since a ...
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... numbers , and to have supplied smoothness of transition and continuity of thought . It is urged by Dr. Sprat , that the irregularity of numbers is the very thing which makes that kind of poesy fit for all manner of subjects . But he ...
... numbers , and to have supplied smoothness of transition and continuity of thought . It is urged by Dr. Sprat , that the irregularity of numbers is the very thing which makes that kind of poesy fit for all manner of subjects . But he ...
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... number ; but he had leisure or perseverance only to write the third part . Epic poems have been left unfinished by Virgil , Statius , Spenser , and Cowley . That we have not the whole Davideis is , however , not much to be regretted ...
... number ; but he had leisure or perseverance only to write the third part . Epic poems have been left unfinished by Virgil , Statius , Spenser , and Cowley . That we have not the whole Davideis is , however , not much to be regretted ...
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... numbers , but the same diction , to the gentle Anacreon and the tempestuous Pindar . His versification seems to have had very little of his care ; and if what he thinks be true , that his numbers are unmusical only when they are ill ...
... numbers , but the same diction , to the gentle Anacreon and the tempestuous Pindar . His versification seems to have had very little of his care ; and if what he thinks be true , that his numbers are unmusical only when they are ill ...
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... numbers were not small , the success of this negotiation gives sufficient evidence . About this time , what estate the war and the gamesters had left him was sold , by order of the parliament ; and when , in 1652 , he returned to ...
... numbers were not small , the success of this negotiation gives sufficient evidence . About this time , what estate the war and the gamesters had left him was sold , by order of the parliament ; and when , in 1652 , he returned to ...
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