The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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Pàgina 2
... prefent age , had the firft fond- ness for his art excited by the perufal of Richardfon's treatise . By his mother's folicitation he was admitted into Weftminster - fchool , where he was foon diftinguished . He was wont , fays Sprat ...
... prefent age , had the firft fond- ness for his art excited by the perufal of Richardfon's treatise . By his mother's folicitation he was admitted into Weftminster - fchool , where he was foon diftinguished . He was wont , fays Sprat ...
Pàgina 39
... prefent , but hardly appropriated . 1 The ode on Wit is almoft without a rival . It was about the time of Cowley that Wit , which had been D 4 till till then used for Intellection , in contradiftinction to Will COWLEY . 39.
... prefent , but hardly appropriated . 1 The ode on Wit is almoft without a rival . It was about the time of Cowley that Wit , which had been D 4 till till then used for Intellection , in contradiftinction to Will COWLEY . 39.
Pàgina 43
... pre- fent day , he has given rather a pleafing than a faith- ful reprefentation , having retained their fpritelinefs , but loft their fimplicity . The Anacreon of Cowley , like the Homer of Pope , has admitted the decoration of fome ...
... pre- fent day , he has given rather a pleafing than a faith- ful reprefentation , having retained their fpritelinefs , but loft their fimplicity . The Anacreon of Cowley , like the Homer of Pope , has admitted the decoration of fome ...
Pàgina 63
... that familiarity with religious images , and that light allufion to facred things , by which readers far fhort of fanctity are frequently offended ; and which would not not be borne in the prefent age , when devotion COWLEY . 63.
... that familiarity with religious images , and that light allufion to facred things , by which readers far fhort of fanctity are frequently offended ; and which would not not be borne in the prefent age , when devotion COWLEY . 63.
Pàgina 64
With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. not be borne in the prefent age , when devotion , per- haps not more fervent , is more delicate . Having produced one paffage taken by Cowley from Donne , I will recompenfe him by ...
With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. not be borne in the prefent age , when devotion , per- haps not more fervent , is more delicate . Having produced one paffage taken by Cowley from Donne , I will recompenfe him by ...
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