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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... pieces took ; On all the fprings and fmalleft wheels did look Of life and motion , and with equal art Made up the whole again of every part . COWLEY . A coal - pit has not often found its poet ; but that it may not want its due honour ...
... pieces took ; On all the fprings and fmalleft wheels did look Of life and motion , and with equal art Made up the whole again of every part . COWLEY . A coal - pit has not often found its poet ; but that it may not want its due honour ...
Pàgina 33
... pieces , and the bullet is his own , And freely flies : this to thy foul allow , Think thy thell broke , think thy foul hatch'd but now .. They were fometimes indelicate and difgufting . Cowley thus apoftrophifes beauty : Thou tyrant ...
... pieces , and the bullet is his own , And freely flies : this to thy foul allow , Think thy thell broke , think thy foul hatch'd but now .. They were fometimes indelicate and difgufting . Cowley thus apoftrophifes beauty : Thou tyrant ...
Pàgina 41
... pieces will be found more finished in their kind than any other of Cowley's works . The diction fhews nothing of the mould of time , and the fentiments are at no great diftance from our prefent habitudes of thought . Real mirth must be ...
... pieces will be found more finished in their kind than any other of Cowley's works . The diction fhews nothing of the mould of time , and the fentiments are at no great diftance from our prefent habitudes of thought . Real mirth must be ...
Pàgina 71
... pieces and as he appears , whenever any ferious queftion comes before him , to have been a man of piety , he confecrated his poetical powers to religion , and made a metrical verfion of the pfalms of David . In this attempt he has ...
... pieces and as he appears , whenever any ferious queftion comes before him , to have been a man of piety , he confecrated his poetical powers to religion , and made a metrical verfion of the pfalms of David . In this attempt he has ...
Pàgina 73
... pieces : it is excelled by his poem to Fanfhaw , and his elegy on Cowley . His praise of Fanfhaw's verfion of Guarini con- tains a very fpritely and judicious character of a good tranflator : " That fervile path thou nobly doft decline ...
... pieces : it is excelled by his poem to Fanfhaw , and his elegy on Cowley . His praise of Fanfhaw's verfion of Guarini con- tains a very fpritely and judicious character of a good tranflator : " That fervile path thou nobly doft decline ...
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