The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... beauties of flowers , in va- rious measures ; and the fifth and sixth , the uses of trees , in heroic numbers . At the same time were produced , from the same univer- sity , the two great poets , Cowley and Milton , of dissimilar genius ...
... beauties of flowers , in va- rious measures ; and the fifth and sixth , the uses of trees , in heroic numbers . At the same time were produced , from the same univer- sity , the two great poets , Cowley and Milton , of dissimilar genius ...
Pàgina 37
... beauties which common authors may justly think not only above their attainment , but above their ambition . To the miscellanies succeed the Anacreontiques , or para- phrastical translations of some little poems , which pass , however ...
... beauties which common authors may justly think not only above their attainment , but above their ambition . To the miscellanies succeed the Anacreontiques , or para- phrastical translations of some little poems , which pass , however ...
Pàgina 38
... beauties and faults , and nearly in the same proportion . They are writ- ten with exuberance of wit , and with copiousness of learn- ing ; and it is truly asserted by Sprat , that the plenitude of the writer's knowledge flows in upon ...
... beauties and faults , and nearly in the same proportion . They are writ- ten with exuberance of wit , and with copiousness of learn- ing ; and it is truly asserted by Sprat , that the plenitude of the writer's knowledge flows in upon ...
Pàgina 43
... beauties and faults of Cowley : Omnibus mundi Dominator horis Aptat urgendas per inane pennas , Pars adhuc nido latet , et futuros Crescit in annos . Cowley , whatever was his subject , seems to have been carried , by a kind of destiny ...
... beauties and faults of Cowley : Omnibus mundi Dominator horis Aptat urgendas per inane pennas , Pars adhuc nido latet , et futuros Crescit in annos . Cowley , whatever was his subject , seems to have been carried , by a kind of destiny ...
Pàgina 49
... beauties ' deepest red ; An harmless flatt'ring meteor shone for hair , And fell adown his shoulders with loose care ; He cuts out a silk mantle from the skies , Where the most sprightly azure pleas'd the eyes ; This he with starry ...
... beauties ' deepest red ; An harmless flatt'ring meteor shone for hair , And fell adown his shoulders with loose care ; He cuts out a silk mantle from the skies , Where the most sprightly azure pleas'd the eyes ; This he with starry ...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1 Samuel Johnson,John Hepburn Millar Visualització completa - 1896 |
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