The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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Pàgina 13
... beauties of Flowers in va- rious measures ; and in the fifth and fixth , the uses of Trees , in heroick numbers . At the fame time were produced , from the fame univerfity , the two great Poets , Cowley and Milton , of diffimilar genius ...
... beauties of Flowers in va- rious measures ; and in the fifth and fixth , the uses of Trees , in heroick numbers . At the fame time were produced , from the fame univerfity , the two great Poets , Cowley and Milton , of diffimilar genius ...
Pàgina 43
... beauties which common authors may justly think not only above their attainment , but above their ambition . To the Mifcellanies fucceed the Anacreontiques , or paraphraftical tranflations of fome little poems , which pafs , however ...
... beauties which common authors may justly think not only above their attainment , but above their ambition . To the Mifcellanies fucceed the Anacreontiques , or paraphraftical tranflations of fome little poems , which pafs , however ...
Pàgina 44
... beauties and faults , and nearly in the fame propor- tion . They are written with exuberance of wit , and with copiousness of learning ; and it is truly af- ferted by Sprat , that the plenitude of the writer's knowledge flows in upon ...
... beauties and faults , and nearly in the fame propor- tion . They are written with exuberance of wit , and with copiousness of learning ; and it is truly af- ferted by Sprat , that the plenitude of the writer's knowledge flows in upon ...
Pàgina 50
... beauties and faults of Cowley ; Omnibus mundi Dominator horis Aptat urgendas per inane pennas , Pars adhuc nido latet , & futuros Crefcit in annos . Cowley , whatever was his fubject , feems to have been carried , by a kind of deftiny ...
... beauties and faults of Cowley ; Omnibus mundi Dominator horis Aptat urgendas per inane pennas , Pars adhuc nido latet , & futuros Crefcit in annos . Cowley , whatever was his fubject , feems to have been carried , by a kind of deftiny ...
Pàgina 58
... beauties ' deepest red : An harmless flatt'ring meteor thone for hair , And fell adown his fhoulders with loofe care ; He cuts out a filk mantle from the fkies , Where the most sprightly azure pleas'd the eyes ; This he with ftarry ...
... beauties ' deepest red : An harmless flatt'ring meteor thone for hair , And fell adown his fhoulders with loofe care ; He cuts out a filk mantle from the fkies , Where the most sprightly azure pleas'd the eyes ; This he with ftarry ...
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