The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... poets , Cowley and Milton , of dissimilar genius , of opposite principles ; but concurring in the culti- vation of Latin poetry , in which the English , till their works and May's poem appeared , seemed unable to contest the palm with ...
... poets , Cowley and Milton , of dissimilar genius , of opposite principles ; but concurring in the culti- vation of Latin poetry , in which the English , till their works and May's poem appeared , seemed unable to contest the palm with ...
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... poets who have written with nar- row views , and , instead of tracing intellectual pleasures in the minds of men ... poets ; of whom , in a criticism on the works of Cowley , it is not improper to give some ac count . The metaphysical ...
... poets who have written with nar- row views , and , instead of tracing intellectual pleasures in the minds of men ... poets ; of whom , in a criticism on the works of Cowley , it is not improper to give some ac count . The metaphysical ...
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... poets ; for they cannot be said to have imitated any thing ; they neither copied nature nor life ; neither painted the forms of mat- ter , nor represented the operations of intellect . Those , however , who deny them to be poets , allow ...
... poets ; for they cannot be said to have imitated any thing ; they neither copied nature nor life ; neither painted the forms of mat- ter , nor represented the operations of intellect . Those , however , who deny them to be poets , allow ...
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... poets ( for poets they were called by themselves and their admirers ) was eminently distinguished . As the authors of this race were perhaps more desirous of being admired than understood , they sometimes drew their conceits from ...
... poets ( for poets they were called by themselves and their admirers ) was eminently distinguished . As the authors of this race were perhaps more desirous of being admired than understood , they sometimes drew their conceits from ...
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... poems , he has forgotten or neglected to name his heroes . In his poem on the death of Hervey , there is much praise , but little passion ; a very just and ample delineation of such virtues as a studious privacy admits , and such intel ...
... poems , he has forgotten or neglected to name his heroes . In his poem on the death of Hervey , there is much praise , but little passion ; a very just and ample delineation of such virtues as a studious privacy admits , and such intel ...
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