The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1James Sawers, 1818 - 1271 pàgines |
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... any remem- brance can be said to remain , were Suckling , Wal- ler , Denham , Cowley , Cleiveland , and Milton . Den- ham and Waller sought another way to fame , by im- proving the harmony of our numbers . Milton tried the 22 COWLEY .
... any remem- brance can be said to remain , were Suckling , Wal- ler , Denham , Cowley , Cleiveland , and Milton . Den- ham and Waller sought another way to fame , by im- proving the harmony of our numbers . Milton tried the 22 COWLEY .
Pàgina 64
... Waller never could produce . The bulk of his thoughts sometimes swelled his verse to unexpected and inevitable grandeur ; but his excellence of this kind is merely fortuitous : he sinks willingly down to his general carelessness , and ...
... Waller never could produce . The bulk of his thoughts sometimes swelled his verse to unexpected and inevitable grandeur ; but his excellence of this kind is merely fortuitous : he sinks willingly down to his general carelessness , and ...
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... Waller remarked , that he broke out like the Irish rebellion , three - score thousand strong , when nobody was aware or in the least suspected it ; ' an observation which could have had no propriety , had his poetical abilities been ...
... Waller remarked , that he broke out like the Irish rebellion , three - score thousand strong , when nobody was aware or in the least suspected it ; ' an observation which could have had no propriety , had his poetical abilities been ...
Pàgina 74
... Waller , ' says Prior , improved our versification , and Dryden perfected it . ' He has given specimens of various composition , descriptive , ludicrous , didactic , and sublime . . He appears to have had , in common with almost all ...
... Waller , ' says Prior , improved our versification , and Dryden perfected it . ' He has given specimens of various composition , descriptive , ludicrous , didactic , and sublime . . He appears to have had , in common with almost all ...
Pàgina 103
... a mind to invest him with military splendour : ' He is much mistaken , ' he says , ' if there was not about this time a design of making him an adjutant - general in Sir William Waller's army . But the new - modelling E 4 MILTON . 103.
... a mind to invest him with military splendour : ' He is much mistaken , ' he says , ' if there was not about this time a design of making him an adjutant - general in Sir William Waller's army . But the new - modelling E 4 MILTON . 103.
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