The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... performances of Cowley and Milton be compared , ( for May I hold to be superior to both ) , the advantage seems to lie on the side of Cowley . Milton is generally content to express the thoughts of the ancients in their language ...
... performances of Cowley and Milton be compared , ( for May I hold to be superior to both ) , the advantage seems to lie on the side of Cowley . Milton is generally content to express the thoughts of the ancients in their language ...
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... performance Suckling could have brought the gaiety , but not the knowledge ; Dryden could have supplied the knowledge , but not the gaiety . The verses to Davenant , which are vigorously begun , and happily concluded , contain some ...
... performance Suckling could have brought the gaiety , but not the knowledge ; Dryden could have supplied the knowledge , but not the gaiety . The verses to Davenant , which are vigorously begun , and happily concluded , contain some ...
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... performances by their just value , and has therefore closed his miscellanies with the verses upon Crashaw , which apparently excel all that have gone before them , and in which there are beauties which common authors may justly think ...
... performances by their just value , and has therefore closed his miscellanies with the verses upon Crashaw , which apparently excel all that have gone before them , and in which there are beauties which common authors may justly think ...
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... performance of the work . Sacred history has been always read with submissive reverence , and an imagination overawed and controlled . We have been accustomed to acquiesce in the nakedness and simplicity of the authentic narrative , and ...
... performance of the work . Sacred history has been always read with submissive reverence , and an imagination overawed and controlled . We have been accustomed to acquiesce in the nakedness and simplicity of the authentic narrative , and ...
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... performance was not his own , but that he had bought it of a vicar for forty pounds . The same attempt was made to rob Addison of his Cato , and Pope of his essay on criticism . In 1647 , the distresses of the royal family required him ...
... performance was not his own , but that he had bought it of a vicar for forty pounds . The same attempt was made to rob Addison of his Cato , and Pope of his essay on criticism . In 1647 , the distresses of the royal family required him ...
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