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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... fubject by their nature to the choice of man , has its changes and fashions , and at different times takes different forms . About the beginning of the feventeenth century , appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphy ...
... fubject by their nature to the choice of man , has its changes and fashions , and at different times takes different forms . About the beginning of the feventeenth century , appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphy ...
Pàgina 25
... fubject they t ' another move : My members then , the father members were From whence thefe take their birth , which now are here . If then this body love what th ' other did , " Twere inceft , which by nature is forbid . The love of ...
... fubject they t ' another move : My members then , the father members were From whence thefe take their birth , which now are here . If then this body love what th ' other did , " Twere inceft , which by nature is forbid . The love of ...
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 43
... fubject for his talk , we fometimes esteem as learned , and fometimes defpife as trifling , always adinire as ingenious , and always condemn as un- natural . The Pindarique Odes are now to be confidered ; a fpecies of compofition ...
... fubject for his talk , we fometimes esteem as learned , and fometimes defpife as trifling , always adinire as ingenious , and always condemn as un- natural . The Pindarique Odes are now to be confidered ; a fpecies of compofition ...
Pàgina 51
... fubject , and partly in the performance of the work . Sacred Hiftory has been always read with fub- miffive reverence , and an imagination over - awed and controlled . We have been accustomed to ac- quiefce in the nakednefs and ...
... fubject , and partly in the performance of the work . Sacred Hiftory has been always read with fub- miffive reverence , and an imagination over - awed and controlled . We have been accustomed to ac- quiefce in the nakednefs and ...
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Æneid afterwards appears becauſe caufe cenfured compofitions Comus confidered converfation Cowley death deferves defign defire delight difcovered Dryden eafily Earl elegance expreffions fafe faid fame fatire favour fays fecond fecure feems feldom fenfe fent fentiments feven fhall fhew fhould fince firft firſt fome fomething fometimes foon ftate ftill ftudy ftyle fubject fuch fufficiently fupplied fuppofed fure Hiftory himſelf houfe Hudibras images John Milton King known labour Lady laft Latin leaft learning leaſt lefs Lord meaſure Milton mind moft moſt muft muſt nature neceffary never NIHIL numbers obferved occafion paffage paffed paffion Paradife Loft parliament perfon perhaps perufal Philips Pindar pleafing pleaſe pleaſure poem poet poetical poetry praife praiſe prefent preferved profe publick publiſhed purpoſe reader reafon reprefented rhyme Sprat thefe theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thought tion tranflation underſtanding univerfally uſed verfes Virgil Waller whofe worfe write written