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... seems scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , since a volume of his poems was not only written , but printed in his thirteenth year ; * containing , with other poetical compositions , The ...
... seems scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , since a volume of his poems was not only written , but printed in his thirteenth year ; * containing , with other poetical compositions , The ...
Pàgina 3
... seems as reasonable to appear the champion as the poet of an airy " nothing , " and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley might have learned from his master Pindar to call " the dream of a shadow . ' It is surely not difficult , in the ...
... seems as reasonable to appear the champion as the poet of an airy " nothing , " and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley might have learned from his master Pindar to call " the dream of a shadow . ' It is surely not difficult , in the ...
Pàgina 5
... seems to have inserted something suppressed in subsequent editions , which was inter- preted to denote some ... seem to have lessened his reputation . His wish for re- tirement we can easily believe to be undissembled ; a man harassed in ...
... seems to have inserted something suppressed in subsequent editions , which was inter- preted to denote some ... seem to have lessened his reputation . His wish for re- tirement we can easily believe to be undissembled ; a man harassed in ...
Pàgina 6
... seems to lie on the side of Cowley . Milton is generally content to express the thoughts of the ancients in their language ; Cowley , without much loss of purity or elegance , accom- modates the diction of Rome to his own conceptions ...
... seems to lie on the side of Cowley . Milton is generally content to express the thoughts of the ancients in their language ; Cowley , without much loss of purity or elegance , accom- modates the diction of Rome to his own conceptions ...
Pàgina 7
... seems to have excited more contempt than pity . These unlucky incidents are brought , maliciously enough , together in some stanzas , written about that time on the choice of a laureat ; a mode of satire , by which , since it was first ...
... seems to have excited more contempt than pity . These unlucky incidents are brought , maliciously enough , together in some stanzas , written about that time on the choice of a laureat ; a mode of satire , by which , since it was first ...
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