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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... tion and elegance of language have defervedly fet him high in the ranks of literature , but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a hiftory : he has given the character , not the ...
... tion and elegance of language have defervedly fet him high in the ranks of literature , but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a hiftory : he has given the character , not the ...
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... tion , that , whatever he may talk of his own in- fiammability , and the variety of characters by which his heart was divided , he in reality was in love but once , and then never had refolution to tell his paffion . This confideration ...
... tion , that , whatever he may talk of his own in- fiammability , and the variety of characters by which his heart was divided , he in reality was in love but once , and then never had refolution to tell his paffion . This confideration ...
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... tion . Thofe writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatnefs ; for great things cannot have efcaped former obfervation . Their attempts were always analytick ; they broke every image into fragments ; and ...
... tion . Thofe writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatnefs ; for great things cannot have efcaped former obfervation . Their attempts were always analytick ; they broke every image into fragments ; and ...
Pàgina 37
... tion to Will , took the meaning , whatever it be , which it now bears . Of all the paffages in which poets have exempli- fied their own precepts , none will eafily be found of greater excellence than that in which Cowley condemns ...
... tion to Will , took the meaning , whatever it be , which it now bears . Of all the paffages in which poets have exempli- fied their own precepts , none will eafily be found of greater excellence than that in which Cowley condemns ...
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... tion , by which new words or meanings of words are introduced , is practifed , not by those who talk to be understood , but by thofe who write to be ad- mired . The Anacreontiques therefore of Cowley give now all the pleasure which they ...
... tion , by which new words or meanings of words are introduced , is practifed , not by those who talk to be understood , but by thofe who write to be ad- mired . The Anacreontiques therefore of Cowley give now all the pleasure which they ...
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