The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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... Poet an Advertisement , like those which we find in the French Mifcellanies , containing a few dates and a general character ; but I have been led beyond my intention , I hope , by the honeft defire of giving useful pleasure . In this ...
... Poet an Advertisement , like those which we find in the French Mifcellanies , containing a few dates and a general character ; but I have been led beyond my intention , I hope , by the honeft defire of giving useful pleasure . In this ...
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... poet . Such are the accidents which , fometimes remem- bered , and perhaps fometimes forgotten , produce that particular defignation of mind , and propenfity for fome certain fcience or employment , which is commonly called Genius . The ...
... poet . Such are the accidents which , fometimes remem- bered , and perhaps fometimes forgotten , produce that particular defignation of mind , and propenfity for fome certain fcience or employment , which is commonly called Genius . The ...
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... poets , Cowley , Milton , and Pope , might be faid to lifp in numbers ; " and have given fuch early proofs , not only of powers of language , but of comprehenfion of things , as to more tardy minds feem fcarcely credible . But of the ...
... poets , Cowley , Milton , and Pope , might be faid to lifp in numbers ; " and have given fuch early proofs , not only of powers of language , but of comprehenfion of things , as to more tardy minds feem fcarcely credible . But of the ...
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... poet of an " airy nothing , " and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley might have learned from his mafter Pindar to call the " dream of a fhadow . " It is furely not difficult , in the folitude of a col- lege , or in the buftle of the ...
... poet of an " airy nothing , " and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley might have learned from his mafter Pindar to call the " dream of a fhadow . " It is furely not difficult , in the folitude of a col- lege , or in the buftle of the ...
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... Poets , Cowley and Milton , of diffimilar genius , of oppofite principles ; but concurring in the cultivation of ... poet and hiftorian , who flourished in the reigns of James and Charles I. and of whom a life is given in the Biogra ...
... Poets , Cowley and Milton , of diffimilar genius , of oppofite principles ; but concurring in the cultivation of ... poet and hiftorian , who flourished in the reigns of James and Charles I. and of whom a life is given in the Biogra ...
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