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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... Poetry , I was perfuaded to promise them a Preface to the Works of each Author ; an underta- king , as it was then prefented to my mind , not very extenfive or difficult . My purpose was only to have allotted to every Poet an ...
... Poetry , I was perfuaded to promise them a Preface to the Works of each Author ; an underta- king , as it was then prefented to my mind , not very extenfive or difficult . My purpose was only to have allotted to every Poet an ...
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... poets are " fcarcely thought freemen of their company with-- " out paying fome duties , or obliging themselves to " be true to Love . " This obligation to amorous ditties owes , 1 be- lieve , its original to the fame of Petrarch , who ...
... poets are " fcarcely thought freemen of their company with-- " out paying fome duties , or obliging themselves to " be true to Love . " This obligation to amorous ditties owes , 1 be- lieve , its original to the fame of Petrarch , who ...
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... poet of an " airy nothing , " and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley might have learned from his mafter Pindar to call the dream of a fhadow . " It is furely not difficult , in the folitude of a col- lege , or in the buftle of the ...
... poet of an " airy nothing , " and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley might have learned from his mafter Pindar to call the dream of a fhadow . " It is furely not difficult , in the folitude of a col- lege , or in the buftle of the ...
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... Poets , Cowley and Milton , of diffimilar genius , of oppofite prin- ciples ; but concurring in the cultivation of Latin Poetry , in which the English , till their works and May's poem appeared * , feemed unable to contest the palm with ...
... Poets , Cowley and Milton , of diffimilar genius , of oppofite prin- ciples ; but concurring in the cultivation of Latin Poetry , in which the English , till their works and May's poem appeared * , feemed unable to contest the palm with ...
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... poets ; of whom , in a criticifm on the works of Cowley , it is not improper to give fome ac- count . The metaphyfical poets were men of learning , and to fhew their learning was their whole endea- vour ; but , unluckily refolving to ...
... poets ; of whom , in a criticifm on the works of Cowley , it is not improper to give fome ac- count . The metaphyfical poets were men of learning , and to fhew their learning was their whole endea- vour ; but , unluckily refolving to ...
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