The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1Nichols and Son, 1801 - 588 pàgines |
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... admires , is feldom pleafed . As From this account of their compofitions it will be readily inferred , that they ... admiration . Sublimity is produced by ag gregation , and littleness by difperfion . Great thoughts are always general ...
... admires , is feldom pleafed . As From this account of their compofitions it will be readily inferred , that they ... admiration . Sublimity is produced by ag gregation , and littleness by difperfion . Great thoughts are always general ...
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... admired than understood , they fometimes drew their conceits from receffes of learning not very much frequented by common readers of poetry . Thus Cowley on Knowledge : The facred tree midft the fair orchard grew ; The phoenix Truth did ...
... admired than understood , they fometimes drew their conceits from receffes of learning not very much frequented by common readers of poetry . Thus Cowley on Knowledge : The facred tree midft the fair orchard grew ; The phoenix Truth did ...
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... admire No fun , but warm's devotion at our fire : He'd leave the trotting whipfter , and prefer Our profound Vulcan ' bove that waggoner . For wants he heat , or light ? or would have ftore , Or both ? ' tis here : and what can funs ...
... admire No fun , but warm's devotion at our fire : He'd leave the trotting whipfter , and prefer Our profound Vulcan ' bove that waggoner . For wants he heat , or light ? or would have ftore , Or both ? ' tis here : and what can funs ...
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... admired . What Cowley has written upon Hope fhews an unequal fertility of invention : Hope , whofe weak being ruin'd is , Alike if it fucceed , and if it iniss ; Whom good or ill does equally confound , And both the horns of Fate's ...
... admired . What Cowley has written upon Hope fhews an unequal fertility of invention : Hope , whofe weak being ruin'd is , Alike if it fucceed , and if it iniss ; Whom good or ill does equally confound , And both the horns of Fate's ...
Pàgina 36
... admiration . HAVING thus endeavoured to exhibit a gene- ral reprefentation of the ftyle and fentiments of the metaphyfical poets , it is now proper to examine particularly the works of Cowley , who was almost the laft of that race , and ...
... admiration . HAVING thus endeavoured to exhibit a gene- ral reprefentation of the ftyle and fentiments of the metaphyfical poets , it is now proper to examine particularly the works of Cowley , who was almost the laft of that race , and ...
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Æneid afterwards appears becauſe caufe cenfured compofitions Comus confidered converfation Cowley death deferves defign defire delight difcovered Dryden eafily Earl elegance expreffions fafe faid fame fatire favour fays fecond fecure feems feldom fenfe fent fentiments feven fhall fhew fhould fince firft firſt fome fomething fometimes foon ftate ftill ftudy ftyle fubject fuch fufficiently fupplied fuppofed fure Hiftory himſelf houfe Hudibras images John Milton King known labour Lady laft Latin leaft learning leaſt lefs Lord meaſure Milton mind moft moſt muft muſt nature neceffary never NIHIL numbers obferved occafion paffage paffed paffion Paradife Loft parliament perfon perhaps perufal Philips Pindar pleafing pleaſe pleaſure poem poet poetical poetry praife praiſe prefent preferved profe publick publiſhed purpoſe reader reafon reprefented rhyme Sprat thefe theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thought tion tranflation underſtanding univerfally uſed verfes Virgil Waller whofe worfe write written