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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... fhew him to have been above the affectation of unfeasonable elegance , and to have known that the bufinels of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetorick . One paffage , however , feems not unworthy of fome notice ...
... fhew him to have been above the affectation of unfeasonable elegance , and to have known that the bufinels of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetorick . One paffage , however , feems not unworthy of fome notice ...
Pàgina 11
... fhew his loyalty at the hazard of his friend , but by his friend's permiffion . Of the verfes on Oliver's death , in which Wood's narrative feems to imply fomething encomiaftick , B 6 there there has been no appearance . There is a ...
... fhew his loyalty at the hazard of his friend , but by his friend's permiffion . Of the verfes on Oliver's death , in which Wood's narrative feems to imply fomething encomiaftick , B 6 there there has been no appearance . There is a ...
Pàgina 18
... fhew their learning was their whole endea- vour ; but , unluckily refolving to fhew it in rhyme , inftead of writing poetry they only wrote verfes , and very often fuch verfes as ftood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ...
... fhew their learning was their whole endea- vour ; but , unluckily refolving to fhew it in rhyme , inftead of writing poetry they only wrote verfes , and very often fuch verfes as ftood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ...
Pàgina 23
... fhew . Each leaf did learned notions give , And th ' apples were demonftrative : So clear their colour and divine , The very shade they caft did other lights outshine . On Anacreon continuing a lover in his old age : Love was with thy ...
... fhew . Each leaf did learned notions give , And th ' apples were demonftrative : So clear their colour and divine , The very shade they caft did other lights outshine . On Anacreon continuing a lover in his old age : Love was with thy ...
Pàgina 29
... fhew , And all with as much eafe might taken be , As the at firft took me For ne'er did light fo clear Among the waves appear , Though every night the fun himself set there . COWLEY . The poetical effect of a lover's name upon glafs ...
... fhew , And all with as much eafe might taken be , As the at firft took me For ne'er did light fo clear Among the waves appear , Though every night the fun himself set there . COWLEY . The poetical effect of a lover's name upon glafs ...
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