The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life , of Cowley ; for he writes with so little detail , that scarcely any thing is dis- tinctly known , but all is shewn confused and enlarged ...
... produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life , of Cowley ; for he writes with so little detail , that scarcely any thing is dis- tinctly known , but all is shewn confused and enlarged ...
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... produce that particular designation of mind , and propen- sity for some certain science or employment , which is com- monly called genius . The true genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally determined to some particular ...
... produce that particular designation of mind , and propen- sity for some certain science or employment , which is com- monly called genius . The true genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally determined to some particular ...
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... produced a comedy call- ed " Love's Riddle , " though it was not published till he had been some time at Cambridge . This comedy is of the pastoral kind , which requires no acquaintance with the living world , and therefore the time at ...
... produced a comedy call- ed " Love's Riddle , " though it was not published till he had been some time at Cambridge . This comedy is of the pastoral kind , which requires no acquaintance with the living world , and therefore the time at ...
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... produced actions of heroism , and effusions of wit ; but it seems as reasonable to appear the champion as the poet of an " airy nothing , " and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley might have learned , from his master Pindar , to call ...
... produced actions of heroism , and effusions of wit ; but it seems as reasonable to appear the champion as the poet of an " airy nothing , " and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley might have learned , from his master Pindar , to call ...
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... produced , from the same univer- sity , the two great 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 ...
... produced , from the same univer- sity , the two great 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 ...
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