The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... admiration . Sublimity is produced by aggregation , and littleness by dispersion . Great thoughts are always general , and consist in positions not limited by exceptions , and in descriptions not descending to mi- nuteness . It is with ...
... admiration . Sublimity is produced by aggregation , and littleness by dispersion . Great thoughts are always general , and consist in positions not limited by exceptions , and in descriptions not descending to mi- nuteness . It is with ...
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... admired than understood , they sometimes drew their conceits from recesses of learning not very much . fre- quented by common readers of poetry . Thus Cowley on knowledge : The sacred tree ' midst the fair orchard grew : The phoenix ...
... admired than understood , they sometimes drew their conceits from recesses of learning not very much . fre- quented by common readers of poetry . Thus Cowley on knowledge : The sacred tree ' midst the fair orchard grew : The phoenix ...
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... admired . What Cowley has written upon hope shews an unequalled fertility of invention : Hope , whose weak being ruin'd is , Alike if it succeed and if it miss ; Whom good or ill does equally confound , And both the horns of fate's ...
... admired . What Cowley has written upon hope shews an unequalled fertility of invention : Hope , whose weak being ruin'd is , Alike if it succeed and if it miss ; Whom good or ill does equally confound , And both the horns of fate's ...
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... admiration . HAVING thus endeavoured to exhibit a general represen tation of the style and sentiments of the metaphysical poets , it is now proper to examine particularly the works of Cow- ley , who was almost the last of that race ...
... admiration . HAVING thus endeavoured to exhibit a general represen tation of the style and sentiments of the metaphysical poets , it is now proper to examine particularly the works of Cow- ley , who was almost the last of that race ...
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... admired . The Anacreontiques , therefore , of Cowley give now all the pleasure which they ever gave . If he was formed by nature for one kind of writing more than for another , his power seems to have been greatest in the familiar and ...
... admired . The Anacreontiques , therefore , of Cowley give now all the pleasure which they ever gave . If he was formed by nature for one kind of writing more than for another , his power seems to have been greatest in the familiar and ...
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