The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
Des de l'interior del llibre
Resultats 1 - 5 de 45.
Pàgina 6
... manners of the lettered world , and filled Europe with love and poetry . But the bafis of all excellence is truth : he that profeffes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a real lover , and Laura doubtlefs deferved his tenderness ...
... manners of the lettered world , and filled Europe with love and poetry . But the bafis of all excellence is truth : he that profeffes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a real lover , and Laura doubtlefs deferved his tenderness ...
Pàgina 8
... manners of that time were fo tinged with fuper- ftition , that I cannot but fufpect Cowley of having confulted on this great occafion the Virgilian lots * , and * Confulting the Virgilian Lots , Sortes Virgiliana , is a me thod of ...
... manners of that time were fo tinged with fuper- ftition , that I cannot but fufpect Cowley of having confulted on this great occafion the Virgilian lots * , and * Confulting the Virgilian Lots , Sortes Virgiliana , is a me thod of ...
Pàgina 16
... manners . He was fatiated " with the arts of a court ; which fort of life , though ❝his virtue made it innocent to him , yet nothing " could make it quiet . Thofe were the reasons that " made him to follow the violent inclination of ...
... manners . He was fatiated " with the arts of a court ; which fort of life , though ❝his virtue made it innocent to him , yet nothing " could make it quiet . Thofe were the reasons that " made him to follow the violent inclination of ...
Pàgina 23
... manner refembled that of Donne more in the ruggedness of his lines than in the caft of his fentiments . When their reputation was high , they had un- doubtedly more imitators than time has left behind . Their immediate fucceffors , of ...
... manner refembled that of Donne more in the ruggedness of his lines than in the caft of his fentiments . When their reputation was high , they had un- doubtedly more imitators than time has left behind . Their immediate fucceffors , of ...
Pàgina 43
... 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 inverfion , by which the eftablished order of COWLEY . 43.
... 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 inverfion , by which the eftablished order of COWLEY . 43.
Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volum 2 Samuel Johnson Visualització completa - 1821 |
The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volum 2 Samuel Johnson Visualització completa - 1783 |
The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volum 2 Samuel Johnson Visualització completa - 1839 |
Frases i termes més freqüents
Æneid againſt anſwer appears becauſe cenfured Charles Dryden compofition confidered converfation Cowley criticifm defign defire delight diſcovered Donne Dryden eafily Earl elegance Engliſh expreffed expreffions fafe faid fame fatire fays fecond feems fenfe fent fentiments fhall fhew fhould fince firft firſt fome fomething fometimes foon ftill ftudies ftyle fubject fuch fufficiently fupply fuppofed fure genius himſelf houfe houſe Hudibras itſelf John Dryden juft King labour laft leaft learning leaſt lefs lines Lord meaſure Milton mind moft moſt muft muſt nature neceffary never NIHIL numbers obferved occafion paffage paffed paffions Paradife Loft perfon perhaps Pindar pleafing pleaſe pleaſure poem poet poetical poetry praife praiſe prefent profe publick publiſhed purpoſe raiſed reafon reft Regifter reprefented rhyme ſeems thee thefe theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thought thouſand tion tragedy tranflation univerfity uſed verfe verfification verſes Virgil Waller whofe write written