The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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... forming defcriptions , they looked out not for images , but for conceits . Night has been a common fubject , which poets have contended to adorn . Dryden's Night is well known ; Donne's is as follows : Thou feeft me here at midnight ...
... forming defcriptions , they looked out not for images , but for conceits . Night has been a common fubject , which poets have contended to adorn . Dryden's Night is well known ; Donne's is as follows : Thou feeft me here at midnight ...
Pàgina 44
... formed by nature for one kind of writing more than for another , his power feems to have been greatest in the familiar and the feftive . The next clafs of his poems is called The Mistress , of which it is not neceffary to felect any ...
... formed by nature for one kind of writing more than for another , his power feems to have been greatest in the familiar and the feftive . The next clafs of his poems is called The Mistress , of which it is not neceffary to felect any ...
Pàgina 50
... forming lie , Close in their facred fecundine afleep . The fame thought is more generally , and there- fore more poetically expreffed by Cafimer , a writer who has many of the beauties and faults of Cowley ; Omnibus mundi Dominator ...
... forming lie , Close in their facred fecundine afleep . The fame thought is more generally , and there- fore more poetically expreffed by Cafimer , a writer who has many of the beauties and faults of Cowley ; Omnibus mundi Dominator ...
Pàgina 59
... formed rather from the Odyffey than the Iliad ,: and many artifices of diverfification are employed , with the fkill of a man acquainted with the best models . The paft is recalled by narration , and the future anticipated by vifion ...
... formed rather from the Odyffey than the Iliad ,: and many artifices of diverfification are employed , with the fkill of a man acquainted with the best models . The paft is recalled by narration , and the future anticipated by vifion ...
Pàgina 67
... formed of monofyllables but yet they are fometimes fweet and fonorous . He fays of the Meffiah , Round the whole earth his dreaded name shall found , And reach to worlds that must not yet be found . In another place , of David , Yet bid ...
... formed of monofyllables but yet they are fometimes fweet and fonorous . He fays of the Meffiah , Round the whole earth his dreaded name shall found , And reach to worlds that must not yet be found . In another place , of David , Yet bid ...
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