The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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Pàgina 13
... performances of Cowley and Milton be compared ( for May I hold to be fuperior to both ) , the advantage feems to lie on the fide of Cowley . Milton is generally content to exprefs the thoughts of the ancients in their language ; Cowley ...
... performances of Cowley and Milton be compared ( for May I hold to be fuperior to both ) , the advantage feems to lie on the fide of Cowley . Milton is generally content to exprefs the thoughts of the ancients in their language ; Cowley ...
Pàgina 41
... performance Suckling could have brought the gaiety , but not the knowledge ; Dryden could have fupplied the knowledge , but not the gaiety . The verfes to Davenant , which are vigoroufly be- gun , and happily concluded , contain fome ...
... performance Suckling could have brought the gaiety , but not the knowledge ; Dryden could have fupplied the knowledge , but not the gaiety . The verfes to Davenant , which are vigoroufly be- gun , and happily concluded , contain fome ...
Pàgina 54
... performance of the work . Sacred History has been always read with fub- miffive reverence , and an imagination overawed and controlled . We have been accustomed to ac- quiefce in the nakedness and fimplicity of the authen tic narrative ...
... performance of the work . Sacred History has been always read with fub- miffive reverence , and an imagination overawed and controlled . We have been accustomed to ac- quiefce in the nakedness and fimplicity of the authen tic narrative ...
Pàgina 73
... performance was not his own , but that he had bought it of a vicar for forty pounds . The fame attempt was made to rob Addison of Cato , and Pope of his Effay on Criti- cifm . In 1647 , the diftreffes of the royal family required In DEN ...
... performance was not his own , but that he had bought it of a vicar for forty pounds . The fame attempt was made to rob Addison of Cato , and Pope of his Effay on Criti- cifm . In 1647 , the diftreffes of the royal family required In DEN ...
Pàgina 89
... performance at either univerfity was The Grateful Fair , written by Chriftopher Smart , and repré fented at Pembroke College , Cambridge , about 1747. R. " which , 66 " which , unless he took with a conscience MILTON . 89.
... performance at either univerfity was The Grateful Fair , written by Chriftopher Smart , and repré fented at Pembroke College , Cambridge , about 1747. R. " which , 66 " which , unless he took with a conscience MILTON . 89.
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