The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... Latin , but without due attention to the ancient models ; for it is not loose verse , but mere prose . It was printed with a dedication in verse to dr . Comber , master of the college ; but , having neither the facility of a popular nor ...
... Latin , but without due attention to the ancient models ; for it is not loose verse , but mere prose . It was printed with a dedication in verse to dr . Comber , master of the college ; but , having neither the facility of a popular nor ...
Pàgina 14
... Latin poetry , in which the English , till their works and May's poem appeared , seemed unable to contest the palm with any other of the lettered nations . If the Latin performances of Cowley and Milton be compared , ( for May I hold to ...
... Latin poetry , in which the English , till their works and May's poem appeared , seemed unable to contest the palm with any other of the lettered nations . If the Latin performances of Cowley and Milton be compared , ( for May I hold to ...
Pàgina 45
... Latin : a poem on the Sheldonian theatre , in which all kinds of verse are shaken together , is unhappily inserted in the Musa Anglicana . Pindarism prevailed about half a century ; but at last died gradually away , and other imitations ...
... Latin : a poem on the Sheldonian theatre , in which all kinds of verse are shaken together , is unhappily inserted in the Musa Anglicana . Pindarism prevailed about half a century ; but at last died gradually away , and other imitations ...
Pàgina 68
... Latin poems . He married a gentlewoman of the name of Caston , a Welsh family , by whom he had two sons , John the poet , and Christopher , who studied the law , and adhered , as the law taught him , to the king's party , for which he ...
... Latin poems . He married a gentlewoman of the name of Caston , a Welsh family , by whom he had two sons , John the poet , and Christopher , who studied the law , and adhered , as the law taught him , to the king's party , for which he ...
Pàgina 69
... Latin tongue ; and he himself , by annexing the dates to his first composi- tions , a boast of which the learned Politian had given him an example , seems to commend the earliness of his own proficiency to the notice of posterity . But ...
... Latin tongue ; and he himself , by annexing the dates to his first composi- tions , a boast of which the learned Politian had given him an example , seems to commend the earliness of his own proficiency to the notice of posterity . But ...
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