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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... fentiment which enables us to conceive and to excite the pains and the pleasure of other minds : they never enquired what , on any occafion , they fhould have faid or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ...
... fentiment which enables us to conceive and to excite the pains and the pleasure of other minds : they never enquired what , on any occafion , they fhould have faid or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ...
Pàgina 22
... fentiment . This kind of writing , which was , I believe , borrowed from Marino and his followers , had been recommended by ... fentiments . When their reputation was high , they had un- doubtedly more imitators than time has left behind ...
... fentiment . This kind of writing , which was , I believe , borrowed from Marino and his followers , had been recommended by ... fentiments . When their reputation was high , they had un- doubtedly more imitators than time has left behind ...
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... fentiments flight and trifling : On an inconftant woman : He enjoys the calmy funfhine now , And no breath ftirring hears , In the clear haven of thy brow , No fmalleft cloud appears . He fees thee gentle , fair and gay , And trufts the ...
... fentiments flight and trifling : On an inconftant woman : He enjoys the calmy funfhine now , And no breath ftirring hears , In the clear haven of thy brow , No fmalleft cloud appears . He fees thee gentle , fair and gay , And trufts the ...
Pàgina 36
... 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 undoubtedly the best . His Mifcellanies contain a collection of short compofitions ...
... 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 undoubtedly the best . His Mifcellanies contain a collection of short compofitions ...
Pàgina 37
... fentiment , from burlesque levity to awful grandeur . Such an affemblage of diverfified excel- lence no other poet has hitherto afforded . To choose the best , among many good , is one of the moft hazardous attempts of criticifm . I ...
... fentiment , from burlesque levity to awful grandeur . Such an affemblage of diverfified excel- lence no other poet has hitherto afforded . To choose the best , among many good , is one of the moft hazardous attempts of criticifm . I ...
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