The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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Pàgina 47
... , with a hint that he had enemies , which Cowley thus enlarges in rhyming profe : But in this thankless world the giver Is envied even by the receiver ; ' Tis now the cheap and frugal fashion Rather to ' Tis COWLEY . 47.
... , with a hint that he had enemies , which Cowley thus enlarges in rhyming profe : But in this thankless world the giver Is envied even by the receiver ; ' Tis now the cheap and frugal fashion Rather to ' Tis COWLEY . 47.
Pàgina 52
... profe . This lax and lawlefs verfification fo much con- cealed the deficiencies of the barren , and flattered the laziness of the idle , that it immediately over- spread our books of poetry ; all the boys and girls caught the pleafing ...
... profe . This lax and lawlefs verfification fo much con- cealed the deficiencies of the barren , and flattered the laziness of the idle , that it immediately over- spread our books of poetry ; all the boys and girls caught the pleafing ...
Pàgina 70
... profe at a greater diftance from each other . His thoughts are natural , and his ftyle has a fimooth and placid equability , which has never yet obtained its due commendation . Nothing is far - fought , or hard- laboured ; but all is ...
... profe at a greater diftance from each other . His thoughts are natural , and his ftyle has a fimooth and placid equability , which has never yet obtained its due commendation . Nothing is far - fought , or hard- laboured ; but all is ...
Pàgina 80
... profe , nor the spriteliness of poetry . Theftrength of Denham , " which Pope fo em phatically mentions , is to be found in many lines and couplets , which convey much meaning in few words , and exhibit the fentiment with more weight ...
... profe , nor the spriteliness of poetry . Theftrength of Denham , " which Pope fo em phatically mentions , is to be found in many lines and couplets , which convey much meaning in few words , and exhibit the fentiment with more weight ...
Pàgina 87
... profe , no fooner attempt verfe than they provoke derifion . If we produced any thing worthy of notice before the elegies of Milton , it was perhaps Alabaster's Roxana * . Of the exercifes , which the rules of the Univer- fity required ...
... profe , no fooner attempt verfe than they provoke derifion . If we produced any thing worthy of notice before the elegies of Milton , it was perhaps Alabaster's Roxana * . Of the exercifes , which the rules of the Univer- fity required ...
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