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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... images which may exhibit the gaiety of hope , or the gloominefs of despair ; and dreffes his imaginary Chloris or Phyllis fometimes in flowers fading as her beauty , and fometimes in gems last- ing as her virtues . At Paris , as ...
... images which may exhibit the gaiety of hope , or the gloominefs of despair ; and dreffes his imaginary Chloris or Phyllis fometimes in flowers fading as her beauty , and fometimes in gems last- ing as her virtues . At Paris , as ...
Pàgina 19
... , may be more rigorously and philofophi- cally confidered as a kind of difcordia concors ; combination of diffimilar images , or discovery of Occult a occult refemblances , in things apparently unlike . Of wit COWLEY . 19.
... , may be more rigorously and philofophi- cally confidered as a kind of difcordia concors ; combination of diffimilar images , or discovery of Occult a occult refemblances , in things apparently unlike . Of wit COWLEY . 19.
Pàgina 21
... image into fragments ; and could no more repre- fent , by their flender conceits and laboured parti- cularities , the profpects of nature , or the fcenes of life , than he , who diffects a fun - beam with a prifm , can exhibit the wide ...
... image into fragments ; and could no more repre- fent , by their flender conceits and laboured parti- cularities , the profpects of nature , or the fcenes of life , than he , who diffects a fun - beam with a prifm , can exhibit the wide ...
Pàgina 34
... Venice - 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 .
... Venice - 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 39
... images , and fuch a dance of words , it is in vain to expect except from Cowley . His ftrength al- ways appears in his agility ; his volatility is not the futter of a light , but the bound of an elastic mind . His levity never leaves ...
... images , and fuch a dance of words , it is in vain to expect except from Cowley . His ftrength al- ways appears in his agility ; his volatility is not the futter of a light , but the bound of an elastic mind . His levity never leaves ...
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