The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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Pàgina 1
... language have deservedly fet him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life , of Cowley ...
... language have deservedly fet him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life , of Cowley ...
Pàgina 13
... language ; Cowley , without much lofs of purity or elegance , accommodates the diction of Rome to his own conceptions . At the Restoration , after all the diligence of his long fervice , and with confcioufnefs not only of the merit of ...
... language ; Cowley , without much lofs of purity or elegance , accommodates the diction of Rome to his own conceptions . At the Restoration , after all the diligence of his long fervice , and with confcioufnefs not only of the merit of ...
Pàgina 20
... language . If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be confidered as wit which is at once natural and new , that which , though not obvious , is , upon its first production , acknowledged to be juft ; if it be that which he ...
... language . If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be confidered as wit which is at once natural and new , that which , though not obvious , is , upon its first production , acknowledged to be juft ; if it be that which he ...
Pàgina 43
... language , and the familiar part of language con- tinues long the fame ; the dialogue of comedy , when it is tranfcribed from popular manners and real life , is read from age to age with equal pleasure . The artifices artifices of ...
... language , and the familiar part of language con- tinues long the fame ; the dialogue of comedy , when it is tranfcribed from popular manners and real life , is read from age to age with equal pleasure . The artifices artifices of ...
Pàgina 48
... language be forgiven , his ftrains are fuch as thofe of the Theban Bard were to his contemporaries : Begin the fong , and ftrike the living lyre : Lo how the years to come , a numerous and well - fitted quire , All hand in hand do ...
... language be forgiven , his ftrains are fuch as thofe of the Theban Bard were to his contemporaries : Begin the fong , and ftrike the living lyre : Lo how the years to come , a numerous and well - fitted quire , All hand in hand do ...
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