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 34
... 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 .
... 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 41
... formed by nature for one kind of writing more than for another , his power feems to have been greateft in the familiar and the feftive . The next clafs of his poems is called The Mif- trefs , of which it is not neceffary to felect any ...
... formed by nature for one kind of writing more than for another , his power feems to have been greateft in the familiar and the feftive . The next clafs of his poems is called The Mif- trefs , of which it is not neceffary to felect any ...
Pàgina 47
... forming lie , Clofe in their facred fecundine asleep . The fame thought is more generally , and there- fore more poetically , expreffed by Cafimir , a writer who has many of the beauties and faults of writer COWLEY . 47.
... forming lie , Clofe in their facred fecundine asleep . The fame thought is more generally , and there- fore more poetically , expreffed by Cafimir , a writer who has many of the beauties and faults of writer COWLEY . 47.
Pàgina 56
... formed rather from the Odyffey than the Iliad and many artifices of diverfification are employed , with the fkill of a man acquainted with the best models . The paft is recailed by narration , and the future anticipated by vifion : but ...
... formed rather from the Odyffey than the Iliad and many artifices of diverfification are employed , with the fkill of a man acquainted with the best models . The paft is recailed by narration , and the future anticipated by vifion : but ...
Pàgina 64
... formed of mono- fyllables ; but yet they are fometimes fweet and fo- norous . He fays of the Meffiah , Round the whole earth his dreaded name shall sound , And reach to worlds that must not yet be found . In another place , of David ...
... formed of mono- fyllables ; but yet they are fometimes fweet and fo- norous . He fays of the Meffiah , Round the whole earth his dreaded name shall sound , And reach to worlds that must not yet be found . In another place , of David ...
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