The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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... kind of History , the fuccef- fion of facts is not easily discovered ; and I am not without fufpicion that fome of Dryden's works are placed in wrong years . I have fol- lowed Langbaine , as the best authority for his plays ; and , if I ...
... kind of History , the fuccef- fion of facts is not easily discovered ; and I am not without fufpicion that fome of Dryden's works are placed in wrong years . I have fol- lowed Langbaine , as the best authority for his plays ; and , if I ...
Pàgina 3
... kind , which requires no acquaintance with the living world , and therefore * This volume was not published before 1633 , when Cowley was fifteen years old . Dr. Johnson , as well as former Biogra phers , feems to have been mitled by ...
... kind , which requires no acquaintance with the living world , and therefore * This volume was not published before 1633 , when Cowley was fifteen years old . Dr. Johnson , as well as former Biogra phers , feems to have been mitled by ...
Pàgina 20
... kind the metaphyfical poets . have feldom rifen . Their thoughts are often new , but feldom natural ; they are not obvious , but neither are they juft ; and the reader , far from wondering that he miffed them , wonders more frequently ...
... kind the metaphyfical poets . have feldom rifen . Their thoughts are often new , but feldom natural ; they are not obvious , but neither are they juft ; and the reader , far from wondering that he miffed them , wonders more frequently ...
Pàgina 23
... kind of writing , which was , I believe , bor- rowed from Marino and his followers , had been re- commended by the , example of Donne , a man of very extensive and various knowledge ; and by Jon- fon , whofe manner refembled that of ...
... kind of writing , which was , I believe , bor- rowed from Marino and his followers , had been re- commended by the , example of Donne , a man of very extensive and various knowledge ; and by Jon- fon , whofe manner refembled that of ...
Pàgina 43
... kind than any other of Cowley's works . The diction fhews nothing of the mould of time , and the fentiments are at no great diftance from our present habitudes of thought . Real mirth muft always be natural , and nature is uniform . Men ...
... kind than any other of Cowley's works . The diction fhews nothing of the mould of time , and the fentiments are at no great diftance from our present habitudes of thought . Real mirth muft always be natural , and nature is uniform . Men ...
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