The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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... verses on Oliver's death , in which Wood's narrative feems to imply fomething encomiaftick , there has been no appearance . There is a discourse concerning his government , indeed , with verfes in- termixed , but such as certainly ...
... verses on Oliver's death , in which Wood's narrative feems to imply fomething encomiaftick , there has been no appearance . There is a discourse concerning his government , indeed , with verfes in- termixed , but such as certainly ...
Pàgina 15
... he have had , ' tis thought , a rebuke , Unless he had done fome notable folly : Writ verses unjustly in praise of Sam Tuke , Or printed his pitiful Melancholy . His vehement defire of retirement now came again upon him His COWLEY . 15.
... he have had , ' tis thought , a rebuke , Unless he had done fome notable folly : Writ verses unjustly in praise of Sam Tuke , Or printed his pitiful Melancholy . His vehement defire of retirement now came again upon him His COWLEY . 15.
Pàgina 19
... verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was fo imperfect , that they were only found to be verfes by counting ' the fyllables . If the father of criticifm has ...
... verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was fo imperfect , that they were only found to be verfes by counting ' the fyllables . If the father of criticifm has ...
Pàgina 40
... verses to Lord Falkland , whom every man of his time was proud to praife , there are , as there must be in all Cowley's compofitions , fome ftriking thoughts , but they are not well wrought . His elegy on Sir Henry Wotton is vigorous ...
... verses to Lord Falkland , whom every man of his time was proud to praife , there are , as there must be in all Cowley's compofitions , fome ftriking thoughts , but they are not well wrought . His elegy on Sir Henry Wotton is vigorous ...
Pàgina 42
... verses for Reason is a paffage which Bentley , in the only English verfes which he is known to have written , feems to have copied , though with the inferiority of an imitator . The Holy Book like the eighth fphere doth fhine With ...
... verses for Reason is a paffage which Bentley , in the only English verfes which he is known to have written , feems to have copied , though with the inferiority of an imitator . The Holy Book like the eighth fphere doth fhine With ...
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