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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... pre- fent age , had the first fondness for his art excited by the perufal of Richardfon's treatise . By his mother's folicitation he was admitted into Weitminster - fchool , where he was foon diftin- guifhed . He was wont , fays Sprat ...
... pre- fent age , had the first fondness for his art excited by the perufal of Richardfon's treatise . By his mother's folicitation he was admitted into Weitminster - fchool , where he was foon diftin- guifhed . He was wont , fays Sprat ...
Pàgina 8
... prefent time , would confidered as merely ludicrous , or at moft as an oftentatious difplay of fcholarship ; but the manners of that time were fo tinged with fuperftition , that I cannot but fufpect Cowley of having confulted on this ...
... prefent time , would confidered as merely ludicrous , or at moft as an oftentatious difplay of fcholarship ; but the manners of that time were fo tinged with fuperftition , that I cannot but fufpect Cowley of having confulted on this ...
Pàgina 37
... prefent , but hardly ap- propriated . The ode on Wit is almoft without a rival . It was about the time of Cowley that Wit , which had been till then used for Intellection , in contradistinc- tion to Will , took the meaning , whatever it ...
... prefent , but hardly ap- propriated . The ode on Wit is almoft without a rival . It was about the time of Cowley that Wit , which had been till then used for Intellection , in contradistinc- tion to Will , took the meaning , whatever it ...
Pàgina 41
... prefent habitudes of thought . Real mirth must be always natural , and nature is uniform . Men have been wife in very different modes ; but they have always laughed the fame way . Levity of thought naturally produced familiarity of ...
... prefent habitudes of thought . Real mirth must be always natural , and nature is uniform . Men have been wife in very different modes ; but they have always laughed the fame way . Levity of thought naturally produced familiarity of ...
Pàgina 58
... of any other poet . He read much , and yet borrowed little . His character of writing was indeed not his own : he unhappily adopted that which was predominant . He He faw a certain way to prefent praife ; and 58 COWLEY .
... of any other poet . He read much , and yet borrowed little . His character of writing was indeed not his own : he unhappily adopted that which was predominant . He He faw a certain way to prefent praife ; and 58 COWLEY .
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