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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... faid " to lifp in numbers ; " and have given fuch early proofs , not only of powers of language , but of comprehenfion of things , as to more tardy minds feems fcarcely cre- dible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no ...
... faid " to lifp in numbers ; " and have given fuch early proofs , not only of powers of language , but of comprehenfion of things , as to more tardy minds feems fcarcely cre- dible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no ...
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... faid to have written , while he was yet a young ftudent , the greater part of his Davideis : " a work of which the materials could not have been collected without the ftudy of many years , but by a mind of the greatest vigour and ...
... faid to have written , while he was yet a young ftudent , the greater part of his Davideis : " a work of which the materials could not have been collected without the ftudy of many years , but by a mind of the greatest vigour and ...
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... faid , that king Charles I. and lord Falkland , being in the Bodleian library , made this experiment of their future fortunes , and met with paffages equally ominous to each . That of the king was the following : At bello audacis populi ...
... faid , that king Charles I. and lord Falkland , being in the Bodleian library , made this experiment of their future fortunes , and met with paffages equally ominous to each . That of the king was the following : At bello audacis populi ...
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... faid that he told them any fecrets , or affifted them by intelligence , or any other act . If he only pro- mifed to be quiet , that they in whofe hands he was might free him from confinement , he did what no law of fociety prohibits ...
... faid that he told them any fecrets , or affifted them by intelligence , or any other act . If he only pro- mifed to be quiet , that they in whofe hands he was might free him from confinement , he did what no law of fociety prohibits ...
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... faid to have imitated any thing ; they neither copied nature for life , neither painted the forms of matter ; nor re- prefented the operations of intellect . Those however who deny them to be poets , allow them to be wits . Dryden ...
... faid to have imitated any thing ; they neither copied nature for life , neither painted the forms of matter ; nor re- prefented the operations of intellect . Those however who deny them to be poets , allow them to be wits . Dryden ...
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