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 8
... moft as an oftentatious difplay of fcholarship ; but the manners of that time were fo tinged with fuperftition , that I cannot but fufpect Cowley of having confulted on this great occafion the Virgi- lian lots , and to have given fome ...
... moft as an oftentatious difplay of fcholarship ; but the manners of that time were fo tinged with fuperftition , that I cannot but fufpect Cowley of having confulted on this great occafion the Virgi- lian lots , and to have given fome ...
Pàgina 25
... moft inconftant now ; Pardon me , madam , you mistake the man ; For I am not the fame that I was then ; No flesh is now the fame ' twas then in me , And that my mind is chang'd yourself may fee . The fame thoughts to retain ftill , and ...
... moft inconftant now ; Pardon me , madam , you mistake the man ; For I am not the fame that I was then ; No flesh is now the fame ' twas then in me , And that my mind is chang'd yourself may fee . The fame thoughts to retain ftill , and ...
Pàgina 33
... moft , ' twas a poor A province pack'd up in two yards of fkin , And that ufurp'd , or threaten'd with a rage Of.fickneffes , or their true mother , age . inn , But think that death hath now enfranchis'd thee ; Thou haft thy expanfion ...
... moft , ' twas a poor A province pack'd up in two yards of fkin , And that ufurp'd , or threaten'd with a rage Of.fickneffes , or their true mother , age . inn , But think that death hath now enfranchis'd thee ; Thou haft thy expanfion ...
Pàgina 37
... moft hazardous attempts of criticifm . I know not whether Scaliger himself has perfuaded many read- ers to join with him in his preference of the two favourite odes , which he estimates in his raptures at the value of a kingdom . I will ...
... moft hazardous attempts of criticifm . I know not whether Scaliger himself has perfuaded many read- ers to join with him in his preference of the two favourite odes , which he estimates in his raptures at the value of a kingdom . I will ...
Pàgina 38
... moft of his encomiaftic poems , he has forgotten or neglected to name his heroes . not In his poem on the death of Harvey , there is much praife , but little paffion ; a very juft and am- ple delineation of fuch virtues as a ftudious ...
... moft of his encomiaftic poems , he has forgotten or neglected to name his heroes . not In his poem on the death of Harvey , there is much praife , but little paffion ; a very juft and am- ple delineation of fuch virtues as a ftudious ...
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