The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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... excellence is truth : he that profeffes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a real lover , and Laura doubtlefs deferved his tenderness . Of Cow- ley , we are told by Barnes * , who had means enough of information , that ...
... excellence is truth : he that profeffes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a real lover , and Laura doubtlefs deferved his tenderness . Of Cow- ley , we are told by Barnes * , who had means enough of information , that ...
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... excellence . For the rejection of this play it is difficult now to find the reafon : it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of difaffection he ex- culpates ...
... excellence . For the rejection of this play it is difficult now to find the reafon : it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of difaffection he ex- culpates ...
Pàgina 39
... excellence no other poet has hitherto afforded . To choose the best , among many good , is one of the most hazard- ous attempts of criticifm . I know not whether Sca- liger himself has perfuaded many readers to join with him in his ...
... excellence no other poet has hitherto afforded . To choose the best , among many good , is one of the most hazard- ous attempts of criticifm . I know not whether Sca- liger himself has perfuaded many readers to join with him in his ...
Pàgina 40
... excellence than that in which Cowley con- demns exuberance of wit : Yet ' tis not to adorn and gild each part , That fhews more coft than art . Jewels at nofe and lips but ill appear ; Rather than all things wit , let none be there ...
... excellence than that in which Cowley con- demns exuberance of wit : Yet ' tis not to adorn and gild each part , That fhews more coft than art . Jewels at nofe and lips but ill appear ; Rather than all things wit , let none be there ...
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... excellence . Clarendon reprefents him as having taken a flight beyond all that went before him ; and Milton is faid to have declared , that the three greatest English poets were Spenfer , Shakspeare , and Cowley . His manner he had in ...
... excellence . Clarendon reprefents him as having taken a flight beyond all that went before him ; and Milton is faid to have declared , that the three greatest English poets were Spenfer , Shakspeare , and Cowley . His manner he had in ...
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