The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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... Poetry , I was perfuaded to promise them a Preface to the Works of each Author ; an undertaking , as it was then pre- fented to my mind , not very extenfive or dif- ficult . My purpose was only to have allotted to every Poet an ...
... Poetry , I was perfuaded to promise them a Preface to the Works of each Author ; an undertaking , as it was then pre- fented to my mind , not very extenfive or dif- ficult . My purpose was only to have allotted to every Poet an ...
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... 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 . Of Cow- ley , we are told by Barnes * , who had means enough ...
... 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 . Of Cow- ley , we are told by Barnes * , who had means enough ...
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... Poets , Cowley and Milton , of diffimilar genius , of oppofite principles ; but concurring in the cultivation of Latin Poetry , in which the English , till their works and May's poem appeared , feemed unable to conteft the palm with any ...
... Poets , Cowley and Milton , of diffimilar genius , of oppofite principles ; but concurring in the cultivation of Latin Poetry , in which the English , till their works and May's poem appeared , feemed unable to conteft the palm with any ...
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... poets were men of learning , and to fhew their learning was their whole endeavour : but , unluckily refolving to fhew it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the ...
... poets were men of learning , and to fhew their learning was their whole endeavour : but , unluckily refolving to fhew it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the ...
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... poetry . Thus Cowley on Knowledge : The facred tree ' midft the fair orchard The phoenix Truth did on it reft , And built his perfum'd nest , grew ; That right Porphyrian tree which did true logic shew . Each leaf did learned notions ...
... poetry . Thus Cowley on Knowledge : The facred tree ' midft the fair orchard The phoenix Truth did on it reft , And built his perfum'd nest , grew ; That right Porphyrian tree which did true logic shew . Each leaf did learned notions ...
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