The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... forming descriptions , they looked out , not for images , but for conceits . Night has been a common subject , which poets have contended to adorn . Dryden's night is well known ; Donne's is as follows : Thou seest me here at midnight ...
... forming descriptions , they looked out , not for images , but for conceits . Night has been a common subject , which poets have contended to adorn . Dryden's night is well known ; Donne's is as follows : Thou seest me here at midnight ...
Pàgina 38
... formed by nature for one kind of writing more than for another , his power seems to have been greatest in the familiar and the festive . The next class of his poems is called The Mistress , of which it is not necessary to select any ...
... formed by nature for one kind of writing more than for another , his power seems to have been greatest in the familiar and the festive . The next class of his poems is called The Mistress , of which it is not necessary to select any ...
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... forming lie , Close in their sacred fecundine asleep . The same thought is more generally , and therefore more poetically , expressed by Casimir , a writer who has many of the beauties and faults of Cowley : Omnibus mundi Dominator ...
... forming lie , Close in their sacred fecundine asleep . The same thought is more generally , and therefore more poetically , expressed by Casimir , a writer who has many of the beauties and faults of Cowley : Omnibus mundi Dominator ...
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... formed rather from the Odyssey than the Iliad : and many artifices of diversification are employed , with the skill of a man ac- quainted with the best models . The past is recalled by narration , and the future anticipated by vision ...
... formed rather from the Odyssey than the Iliad : and many artifices of diversification are employed , with the skill of a man ac- quainted with the best models . The past is recalled by narration , and the future anticipated by vision ...
Pàgina 55
... to pay ! Unhappy slave , and pupil , to a bell ! Which his hour's work , as well as hours , does tell ; Unhappy , till the last , the kind - releasing , knell . His heroic lines are often formed of monosyllables ; but COWLEY . 55.
... to pay ! Unhappy slave , and pupil , to a bell ! Which his hour's work , as well as hours , does tell ; Unhappy , till the last , the kind - releasing , knell . His heroic lines are often formed of monosyllables ; but COWLEY . 55.
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