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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... praise may safely be credited , as it has never been contradicted by envy or by faction . Such are the remarks and memorials which I have been able to add to the narrative of Dr. Sprat ; who , writing when the feuds of the civil Now in ...
... praise may safely be credited , as it has never been contradicted by envy or by faction . Such are the remarks and memorials which I have been able to add to the narrative of Dr. Sprat ; who , writing when the feuds of the civil Now in ...
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... praise , there are , as there must be in all Cowley's compofitions , some striking thoughts , but they are not well wrought . His elegy on Sir Henry Wotton is vigorous and happy ; the feries of thoughts is eafy and natural ; and the ...
... praise , there are , as there must be in all Cowley's compofitions , some striking thoughts , but they are not well wrought . His elegy on Sir Henry Wotton is vigorous and happy ; the feries of thoughts is eafy and natural ; and the ...
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... praises are too far fought , and too hyperbolical , either to exprefs love , or to excite it ; every ftanza is crowded with darts and flames , with wounds and death , with mingled fouls , and with broken . hearts . The principal ...
... praises are too far fought , and too hyperbolical , either to exprefs love , or to excite it ; every ftanza is crowded with darts and flames , with wounds and death , with mingled fouls , and with broken . hearts . The principal ...
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... praise . He gives Saul both the body and mind of a hero : - His way once chofe , he forward thrust outright , Nor turn'd afide for danger or delight . And the different beauties of the lofty Merah and the gentle Michol are very juftly ...
... praise . He gives Saul both the body and mind of a hero : - His way once chofe , he forward thrust outright , Nor turn'd afide for danger or delight . And the different beauties of the lofty Merah and the gentle Michol are very juftly ...
Pàgina 73
... 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 , " Of tracing word by word , and line by line . " Thofe are the labour'd ...
... 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 , " Of tracing word by word , and line by line . " Thofe are the labour'd ...
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