The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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... sometimes ftruck out unexpected truth : if their conceits were far - fetched , they were often worth the carriage . To write on their plan it was at leaft neceffary to read and think . No man could be born a metaphyfical poet , nor ...
... sometimes ftruck out unexpected truth : if their conceits were far - fetched , they were often worth the carriage . To write on their plan it was at leaft neceffary to read and think . No man could be born a metaphyfical poet , nor ...
Pàgina 47
... sometimes extends his author's thoughts with- out improving them . In the Olympionick an oath is mentioned in a fingle word , and Cowley fpends three lines in fwearing by the Caftalian Stream . We are told of Theron's bounty , with a ...
... sometimes extends his author's thoughts with- out improving them . In the Olympionick an oath is mentioned in a fingle word , and Cowley fpends three lines in fwearing by the Caftalian Stream . We are told of Theron's bounty , with a ...
Pàgina 58
... Gabriel got first his fkin , and then his mantle , then his lace , and then his fcarfe , and related it in the terms of the mercer and tailor . Some- Sometimes he indulges himself in a digreffion , always conceived 58 COWLEY .
... Gabriel got first his fkin , and then his mantle , then his lace , and then his fcarfe , and related it in the terms of the mercer and tailor . Some- Sometimes he indulges himself in a digreffion , always conceived 58 COWLEY .
Pàgina 59
With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. Sometimes he indulges himself in a digreffion , always conceived with his natural exuberance , and commonly , even where it is not long , continued till it is tedious : I ' th ...
With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. Sometimes he indulges himself in a digreffion , always conceived with his natural exuberance , and commonly , even where it is not long , continued till it is tedious : I ' th ...
Pàgina 82
... Sometimes the weight of rhyme is laid upon a word too feeble to fuftain it : " Troy confounded falls " From all her glories : if it might have food " By any power , by this right hand it shou'd . " And though my outward ftate misfortune ...
... Sometimes the weight of rhyme is laid upon a word too feeble to fuftain it : " Troy confounded falls " From all her glories : if it might have food " By any power , by this right hand it shou'd . " And though my outward ftate misfortune ...
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