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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... language have defervedly fet him high in the ranks of literature , but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a hiftory : he has given the character , not the life of Cowley ; for ...
... language have defervedly fet him high in the ranks of literature , but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a hiftory : he has given the character , not the life of Cowley ; for ...
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... language , but of comprehenfion of things , as to more tardy minds feems fcarcely cre- dible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , fince a volume of his poems was not only written but printed in his thirteenth ...
... language , but of comprehenfion of things , as to more tardy minds feems fcarcely cre- dible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , fince a volume of his poems was not only written but printed in his thirteenth ...
Pàgina 13
... language ; Cowley , without much lofs of purity or elegance , accommodates the diction of Rome to his own conceptions . At the Restoration , after all the diligence of his long fervice , and with confcioufnefs not only of the merit of ...
... language ; Cowley , without much lofs of purity or elegance , accommodates the diction of Rome to his own conceptions . At the Restoration , after all the diligence of his long fervice , and with confcioufnefs not only of the merit of ...
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... language , If by a more noble and more adequate con- ception that be confidered as Wit which is at once natural and new , that which , though not obvious , is , upon its firft production , acknowledged to be just ; if it be that which ...
... language , If by a more noble and more adequate con- ception that be confidered as Wit which is at once natural and new , that which , though not obvious , is , upon its firft production , acknowledged to be just ; if it be that which ...
Pàgina 41
... language , and the familiar part of language con- tinues long the fame ; the dialogue of comedy , when it is tranfcribed from popular manners and real life , is read from age to age with equal plea fure . The artifices of inverfion , by ...
... language , and the familiar part of language con- tinues long the fame ; the dialogue of comedy , when it is tranfcribed from popular manners and real life , is read from age to age with equal plea fure . The artifices of inverfion , by ...
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