The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... compositions , " The tragical History of Pyramus and Thisbe , " written when he was ten years old ; and " Constantia and Philetus , " written two years after . While he was yet at school , he produced a comedy call- ed " Love's Riddle ...
... compositions , " The tragical History of Pyramus and Thisbe , " written when he was ten years old ; and " Constantia and Philetus , " written two years after . While he was yet at school , he produced a comedy call- ed " Love's Riddle ...
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... compositions , it will be rea- dily inferred , that they were not successful in representing or moving the affections . As they were wholly employed on something unexpected and surprising , they had no re gard to that uniformity of ...
... compositions , it will be rea- dily inferred , that they were not successful in representing or moving the affections . As they were wholly employed on something unexpected and surprising , they had no re gard to that uniformity of ...
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... compositions , some striking thoughts , but they are not well wrought . His elegy on sir Henry Wotton is vigorous and happy ; the series of thoughts is easy and natural ; and the conclusion , though a little weakened COWLEY . 35.
... compositions , some striking thoughts , but they are not well wrought . His elegy on sir Henry Wotton is vigorous and happy ; the series of thoughts is easy and natural ; and the conclusion , though a little weakened COWLEY . 35.
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... composition unrivalled and alone : such gaiety of fancy , such facility of expression , such va- ried similitude , such a succession of images , and such a dance of words , it is in vain to expect , except from Cowley . His strength ...
... composition unrivalled and alone : such gaiety of fancy , such facility of expression , such va- ried similitude , such a succession of images , and such a dance of words , it is in vain to expect , except from Cowley . His strength ...
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... compositions are such as might have been written for pe- nance by a hermit , or for hire by a philosophical rhymer ... composition which Cowley thinks Pancirolus might have counted in his list of the lost inventions of antiquity ...
... compositions are such as might have been written for pe- nance by a hermit , or for hire by a philosophical rhymer ... composition which Cowley thinks Pancirolus might have counted in his list of the lost inventions of antiquity ...
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