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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... tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a commodious inci- dent , though the book to which he prefixed his narrative contained its confutation . A memory admitting fome things , and rejecting others ...
... tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a commodious inci- dent , though the book to which he prefixed his narrative contained its confutation . A memory admitting fome things , and rejecting others ...
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... tell that he could not learn the rules , but that , being able to perform his exercises with- out them , and being an " enemy to conftraint , " he fpared himself the labour . Among the English poets , Cowley , Milton , and Pope , might ...
... tell that he could not learn the rules , but that , being able to perform his exercises with- out them , and being an " enemy to conftraint , " he fpared himself the labour . Among the English poets , Cowley , Milton , and Pope , might ...
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... tell his paffion . This confideration cannot but abate , in fome measure , the reader's esteem for the work and the author . To love excellence is natural ; it is na- tural likewife for the lover to folicit reciprocal re- gard by an ...
... tell his paffion . This confideration cannot but abate , in fome measure , the reader's esteem for the work and the author . To love excellence is natural ; it is na- tural likewife for the lover to folicit reciprocal re- gard by an ...
Pàgina 7
... - " tual neceffity of an accord is vifible ; the King " is perfuaded of it . And to tell you the truth ( which I take to be an argument above all the 66 66 B 4 " reft ) , " reft ) , Virgil has told the fame thing COWLE Y. 7.
... - " tual neceffity of an accord is vifible ; the King " is perfuaded of it . And to tell you the truth ( which I take to be an argument above all the 66 66 B 4 " reft ) , " reft ) , Virgil has told the fame thing COWLE Y. 7.
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... tell , cannot however now be known . I must therefore recommend the perufal of his work , to which my narration can be confidered only as a fiender fup- plement . COWLEY , like other poets who have writ- ten with narrow views , and ...
... tell , cannot however now be known . I must therefore recommend the perufal of his work , to which my narration can be confidered only as a fiender fup- plement . COWLEY , like other poets who have writ- ten with narrow views , and ...
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