The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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Pàgina 1
... friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life , of Cowley ; for he writes with fo little detail , that fcarcely any thing is diftinct- ly known ...
... friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life , of Cowley ; for he writes with fo little detail , that fcarcely any thing is diftinct- ly known ...
Pàgina 9
... friends in battle flain , And their untimely fate lament in vain : And when , at length , the cruel war fhall cease , On hard conditions may he buy his peace ; Nor let him then enjoy fupreme command , But fall untimely by fome hoftile ...
... friends in battle flain , And their untimely fate lament in vain : And when , at length , the cruel war fhall cease , On hard conditions may he buy his peace ; Nor let him then enjoy fupreme command , But fall untimely by fome hoftile ...
Pàgina 11
... friends ) , he went into France again , having " made a copy of verfes on Oliver's death . " This is no favourable reprefentation , yet even in this not much wrong can be difcovered . How far he complied with the men in power , is to be ...
... friends ) , he went into France again , having " made a copy of verfes on Oliver's death . " This is no favourable reprefentation , yet even in this not much wrong can be difcovered . How far he complied with the men in power , is to be ...
Pàgina 12
... friend , but by his friend's permiffion . Of the verses on Oliver's death , in which Wood's narrative feems to imply ... friends among the abettors of ufurpation . A doctor of phyfick however he was made at Ox ÷ ford in December , 1657 ...
... friend , but by his friend's permiffion . Of the verses on Oliver's death , in which Wood's narrative feems to imply ... friends among the abettors of ufurpation . A doctor of phyfick however he was made at Ox ÷ ford in December , 1657 ...
Pàgina 58
... friend begin . In a fimile descriptive of the Morning : As glimmering ftars just at th ' approach of day , Cashier'd by troops , at last all drop away . The drefs of Gabriel deferves attention : He took for skin a cloud most foft and ...
... friend begin . In a fimile descriptive of the Morning : As glimmering ftars just at th ' approach of day , Cashier'd by troops , at last all drop away . The drefs of Gabriel deferves attention : He took for skin a cloud most foft and ...
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