The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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Pàgina 7
... images which may exhibit the gaiety of hope , or the gloominefs of despair ; and dreffes his imaginary Chloris or Phyllis fometimes in flowers fading as her beauty , and fome- times in gems lafting as her virtues . At Paris , as ...
... images which may exhibit the gaiety of hope , or the gloominefs of despair ; and dreffes his imaginary Chloris or Phyllis fometimes in flowers fading as her beauty , and fome- times in gems lafting as her virtues . At Paris , as ...
Pàgina 20
... images , or difcovery of occult refem- blances in things apparently unlike . Of wit , thus defined , they have more than enough . The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together ; nature and art are ranfacked for ...
... images , or difcovery of occult refem- blances in things apparently unlike . Of wit , thus defined , they have more than enough . The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together ; nature and art are ranfacked for ...
Pàgina 21
... cannot have efcaped former obfervation . Their attempts were always analytick ; they broke every image into fragments ; and could no more repre- c 3 fext , fent , by their flender conceits and laboured particu- larities COW , LEY . 21.
... cannot have efcaped former obfervation . Their attempts were always analytick ; they broke every image into fragments ; and could no more repre- c 3 fext , fent , by their flender conceits and laboured particu- larities COW , LEY . 21.
Pàgina 37
... 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 , now all reft : Time's dead low - water ; when ...
... 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 , now all reft : Time's dead low - water ; when ...
Pàgina 41
... images , and fuch a dance of words , it is in vain to expect except from Cowley . His ftrength always appears in his agility ; his volatility is not the flutter of a light , but the bound of an elaftick mind . His levity never leaves ...
... images , and fuch a dance of words , it is in vain to expect except from Cowley . His ftrength always appears in his agility ; his volatility is not the flutter of a light , but the bound of an elaftick mind . His levity never leaves ...
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