The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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Pàgina 4
... Latin , but without due attention to the ancient models ; for it is not loose verse , but mere prose . It was printed , with a dedication in yerfe , to Dr. Comber , mafter of the college ; but , having nei- ther the facility of a ...
... Latin , but without due attention to the ancient models ; for it is not loose verse , but mere prose . It was printed , with a dedication in yerfe , to Dr. Comber , mafter of the college ; but , having nei- ther the facility of a ...
Pàgina 13
... Latin Poetry , in which the English , till their works and May's poem appeared , feemed unable to conteft the palm with any other of the lettered nations . If the Latin performances of Cowley and Milton be compared ( for May I hold to ...
... Latin Poetry , in which the English , till their works and May's poem appeared , feemed unable to conteft the palm with any other of the lettered nations . If the Latin performances of Cowley and Milton be compared ( for May I hold to ...
Pàgina 52
... Latin : a poem on the Sheldonian Theatre , * First publifhed in quarto , 1669 , under the title of " Car- men Pindaricum in Theatrum Sheldonianum in folennibus magnifici Operis Encaniis . Recitatum Julii die 9 , Anno 1669 , " a Corbetto ...
... Latin : a poem on the Sheldonian Theatre , * First publifhed in quarto , 1669 , under the title of " Car- men Pindaricum in Theatrum Sheldonianum in folennibus magnifici Operis Encaniis . Recitatum Julii die 9 , Anno 1669 , " a Corbetto ...
Pàgina 85
... Latin poems . He married a gentlewoman of the name of Cafton , a Welth family , by whom he had two fons , John , the poet , and Chriftopher , who ftudied the law , and adhered , as the law taught him , to the King's party , for which he ...
... Latin poems . He married a gentlewoman of the name of Cafton , a Welth family , by whom he had two fons , John , the poet , and Chriftopher , who ftudied the law , and adhered , as the law taught him , to the King's party , for which he ...
Pàgina 86
... Latin tongue ; and he himself , by annexing the dates to his first compofitions , a boast of which the learned Politian had given him an example , feems to com- mend the earlinefs of his own proficiency to the no- tice of pofterity ...
... Latin tongue ; and he himself , by annexing the dates to his first compofitions , a boast of which the learned Politian had given him an example , feems to com- mend the earlinefs of his own proficiency to the no- tice of pofterity ...
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