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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... praife of Sam Tuke , Or printed his pitiful Melancholy . His vehement defire of retirement now came again upon him . " Not finding , " fays the morofe Wood , " that preferment conferred upon him " which he expected , while others for ...
... praife of Sam Tuke , Or printed his pitiful Melancholy . His vehement defire of retirement now came again upon him . " Not finding , " fays the morofe Wood , " that preferment conferred upon him " which he expected , while others for ...
Pàgina 32
... praife which are often gained by thofe , who think lefs , but are more diligent to adorn their thoughts . That a miftrefs beloved is fairer in idea than in reality , is by Cowley thus expressed : Thou in my fancy doft much higher ftand ...
... praife which are often gained by thofe , who think lefs , but are more diligent to adorn their thoughts . That a miftrefs beloved is fairer in idea than in reality , is by Cowley thus expressed : Thou in my fancy doft much higher ftand ...
Pàgina 38
... praife , but little paffion ; a very juft and am- ple delineation of fuch virtues as a ftudious privacy admits , and fuch intellectual excellence as a mind yet called forth to action can difplay . He knew how to diftinguifh , and how to ...
... praife , but little paffion ; a very juft and am- ple delineation of fuch virtues as a ftudious privacy admits , and fuch intellectual excellence as a mind yet called forth to action can difplay . He knew how to diftinguifh , and how to ...
Pàgina 41
... praife or cenfure . They have all the fame beauties and faults , and nearly in the fame proportion . They are written with exuberance of wit , and with copioufnefs of learning ; and it is truly truly afferted by Spat , that the ...
... praife or cenfure . They have all the fame beauties and faults , and nearly in the fame proportion . They are written with exuberance of wit , and with copioufnefs of learning ; and it is truly truly afferted by Spat , that the ...
Pàgina 50
... praife ; of which it may be faid with truth , that no man but Cowley could have written them . The Davideis now remains to be confidered ; a poem which the author defigned to have extended to twelve books , merely , as he makes no ...
... praife ; of which it may be faid with truth , that no man but Cowley could have written them . The Davideis now remains to be confidered ; a poem which the author defigned to have extended to twelve books , merely , as he makes no ...
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