The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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Pàgina 3
... faid to lifp in numbers ; " and have given fuch early proofs , not only of powers of language , but of comprehenfion of things , as to more tardy minds feem fcarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt ...
... faid to lifp in numbers ; " and have given fuch early proofs , not only of powers of language , but of comprehenfion of things , as to more tardy minds feem fcarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt ...
Pàgina 11
... faid that he told them any fecrets , or affifted them by intel- ligence or any other act . If he only promised to be quiet , that they in whofe hands he was might free him from confinement , he did what no law of fociety prohibits . The ...
... faid that he told them any fecrets , or affifted them by intel- ligence or any other act . If he only promised to be quiet , that they in whofe hands he was might free him from confinement , he did what no law of fociety prohibits . The ...
Pàgina 19
... faid to have imi- tated any thing ; they neither copied nature for life ; neither painted the forms of matter ; nor represented the operations of intellect . Thofe however who deny them to be poets , allow them to be wits . Dryden ...
... faid to have imi- tated any thing ; they neither copied nature for life ; neither painted the forms of matter ; nor represented the operations of intellect . Thofe however who deny them to be poets , allow them to be wits . Dryden ...
Pàgina 21
... faid or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than par- takers of human nature ; as Beings looking upon good and evil , impaffive and at leifure ; as Epicurean deities , making remarks on the actions of men , and the viciffitudes of life ...
... faid or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than par- takers of human nature ; as Beings looking upon good and evil , impaffive and at leifure ; as Epicurean deities , making remarks on the actions of men , and the viciffitudes of life ...
Pàgina 23
... faid to remain , were Suckling , Wal- ler , Denham , Cowley , Cleiveland , and Milton . Den- ham and Waller fought another way to fame , by im- proving the harmony of our numbers . Milton tried the metaphyfic ftyle only in his lines ...
... faid to remain , were Suckling , Wal- ler , Denham , Cowley , Cleiveland , and Milton . Den- ham and Waller fought another way to fame , by im- proving the harmony of our numbers . Milton tried the metaphyfic ftyle only in his lines ...
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