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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... poet and hiftorian , who flourished in the reigns of James and Charles I. and of whom a life is given in the Biographia Bri- tannica . H. If the Latin performances of Cowley and Milton be compared If 12 COWLEY . COWLEY, oct.
... poet and hiftorian , who flourished in the reigns of James and Charles I. and of whom a life is given in the Biographia Bri- tannica . H. If the Latin performances of Cowley and Milton be compared If 12 COWLEY . COWLEY, oct.
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With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. If the Latin performances of Cowley and Milton be compared ( for May I hold to be fuperior to both ) , the advantage feems to lie on the fide of Cowley . Milton is generally ...
With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. If the Latin performances of Cowley and Milton be compared ( for May I hold to be fuperior to both ) , the advantage feems to lie on the fide of Cowley . Milton is generally ...
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... performance Suckling could have brought the gaiety , but not the knowledge ; Dryden could have fupplied the knowledge , but not the gaiety . The verses to Davenant , which are vigorously begun , and happily concluded , contain fome ...
... performance Suckling could have brought the gaiety , but not the knowledge ; Dryden could have fupplied the knowledge , but not the gaiety . The verses to Davenant , which are vigorously begun , and happily concluded , contain fome ...
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... performances by their juft value , and has there- fore clofed his Mifcellanies with the verfes upon Crafhaw , which apparently excel all that have gone before them , and in which there are beauties which common authors may juftly think ...
... performances by their juft value , and has there- fore clofed his Mifcellanies with the verfes upon Crafhaw , which apparently excel all that have gone before them , and in which there are beauties which common authors may juftly think ...
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... 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 fimplicity of the au- thentic ...
... 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 fimplicity of the au- thentic ...
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