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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... produced a funeral oration rather than a hiftory : he has given the character , not the life of Cowley ; for , he writes with fo little detail , that fcarcely any thing is diftinctly known , but all is fhewn con- fufed and enlarged ...
... produced a funeral oration rather than a hiftory : he has given the character , not the life of Cowley ; for , he writes with fo little detail , that fcarcely any thing is diftinctly known , but all is fhewn con- fufed and enlarged ...
Pàgina 2
... produce that particular defignation of mind , and propenfity for fome certain fcience or employment , which is commonly called Genius . The true Genius is a mind of large general powers , acci- dentally determined to fome particular ...
... produce that particular defignation of mind , and propenfity for fome certain fcience or employment , which is commonly called Genius . The true Genius is a mind of large general powers , acci- dentally determined to fome particular ...
Pàgina 3
... produced a co- medy called " Love's Riddle , " though it was not published till he had been some time at Cambridge . This comedy is of the paftoral kind , which re- quires no acquaintance with the living world , and , therefore the time ...
... produced a co- medy called " Love's Riddle , " though it was not published till he had been some time at Cambridge . This comedy is of the paftoral kind , which re- quires no acquaintance with the living world , and , therefore the time ...
Pàgina 6
... produced actions of heroifm , and effufions of wit ; but it seems as reafonable to appear the champion as 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 ...
... produced actions of heroifm , and effufions of wit ; but it seems as reafonable to appear the champion as 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 ...
Pàgina 12
... produced , from the fame univerfity , the two great 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 ...
... produced , from the fame univerfity , the two great 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 ...
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