The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... poetry , I was persuaded to promise them a preface to the works of each author ; an undertaking , as it was then presented to my mind , not very extensive or difficult . My purpose was only to have allotted to every poet an ...
... poetry , I was persuaded to promise them a preface to the works of each author ; an undertaking , as it was then presented to my mind , not very extensive or difficult . My purpose was only to have allotted to every poet an ...
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... poetry . But the basis of all excellence is truth : he that professes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a real lover , and Laura doubtless deserved his tender- ness . Of Cowley , we are told by Barnes , * who had means enough ...
... poetry . But the basis of all excellence is truth : he that professes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a real lover , and Laura doubtless deserved his tender- ness . Of Cowley , we are told by Barnes , * who had means enough ...
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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 , paid their court to temporary prejudices , has ... poetry , they only wrote verses , and very often 18 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... poets who have written with nar- row views , and , instead of tracing intellectual pleasures in the minds of men , paid their court to temporary prejudices , has ... poetry , they only wrote verses , and very often 18 LIVES OF THE POETS .
Pàgina 19
... poetry TÉXYĦ μupŋTIKǹ , an imitative art , these writers will , without great wrong , lose their right to the name of poets ; for they cannot be said to have imitated any thing ; they neither copied nature nor life ; neither painted the ...
... poetry TÉXYĦ μupŋTIKǹ , an imitative art , these writers will , without great wrong , lose their right to the name of poets ; for they cannot be said to have imitated any thing ; they neither copied nature nor life ; neither painted the ...
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