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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Pàgina 23
... common readers of poetry . Thus Cowley on Knowledge : The facred tree midft the fair orchard grew ; The phoenix Truth did on it reft , And built his perfum'd neft , That right Porphyrian tree which did true logic fhew . Each leaf did ...
... common readers of poetry . Thus Cowley on Knowledge : The facred tree midft the fair orchard grew ; The phoenix Truth did on it reft , And built his perfum'd neft , That right Porphyrian tree which did true logic fhew . Each leaf did ...
Pàgina 32
... common topick , the dan- ger of procraftination , is thus illuftrated : That which I should have begun In my youth's morning , now late must be done ; And I , as giddy travellers must do , Which ftray or fleep all day , and having loft ...
... common topick , the dan- ger of procraftination , is thus illuftrated : That which I should have begun In my youth's morning , now late must be done ; And I , as giddy travellers must do , Which ftray or fleep all day , and having loft ...
Pàgina 34
... Venice - glass . COWLEY . In forming defcriptions , they looked out not for images , but for conceits . Night has been a common fubject , which poets have contended to adorn . adorn . Dryden's Night is well known ; Donne's is 34 COWLEY .
... Venice - glass . COWLEY . In forming defcriptions , they looked out not for images , but for conceits . Night has been a common fubject , which poets have contended to adorn . adorn . Dryden's Night is well known ; Donne's is 34 COWLEY .
Pàgina 35
... common fubjects often unne- ceffarily and unpoetically fubtle , yet where fcholaf- tick fpeculation can be properly admitted , their co- pioufnefs and acutenefs may juftly be admired . What Cowley has written upon Hope fhews an unequal ...
... common fubjects often unne- ceffarily and unpoetically fubtle , yet where fcholaf- tick fpeculation can be properly admitted , their co- pioufnefs and acutenefs may juftly be admired . What Cowley has written upon Hope fhews an unequal ...
Pàgina 40
... common authors may juftly think not only above their attainment , but above their ambition . To the Mifcellanies fucceed the Anacreontiques , or paraphraftical tranflations of fome little poems , which país , however juftly , under the ...
... common authors may juftly think not only above their attainment , but above their ambition . To the Mifcellanies fucceed the Anacreontiques , or paraphraftical tranflations of fome little poems , which país , however juftly , under the ...
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