The lives of the most eminent English poets, with critical observations on their works, Volum 1G. Walker, J. Akerman, E. Edwards, W. Robinson and Sons, Liverpool, E. Thomson, Manchester, J. Noble, Hull, J. Wilson, Berwick, W. Whyte and Company, Edinburgh, and R. Griffin and Company, Glasgow, 1820 |
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... compared ( for May I hold to be superior to both ) , the advantage seems to lie on the side of Cowley . Milton is generally content to express the thoughts of the ancients in their language ; Cowley , without COWLEY . 11.
... compared ( for May I hold to be superior to both ) , the advantage seems to lie on the side of Cowley . Milton is generally content to express the thoughts of the ancients in their language ; Cowley , without COWLEY . 11.
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Samuel Johnson. of the ancients in their language ; Cowley , without much loss of purity or elegance , accommodates the diction of Rome to his own conceptions . At the restoration , after all the diligence of his long service , and with ...
Samuel Johnson. of the ancients in their language ; Cowley , without much loss of purity or elegance , accommodates the diction of Rome to his own conceptions . At the restoration , after all the diligence of his long service , and with ...
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... ley delighted in it , as much as if he had invented it ; but , not to mention the ancients , he might have found it full - blown in modern Italy , Thus Sannazaro : Aspice quam variis distringar Vesbia curis ! Uror , et COWLEY . 41.
... ley delighted in it , as much as if he had invented it ; but , not to mention the ancients , he might have found it full - blown in modern Italy , Thus Sannazaro : Aspice quam variis distringar Vesbia curis ! Uror , et COWLEY . 41.
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... ancients have continued to delight through all the changes of human manners , he contented himself with a deciduous laurel , of which the verdure in its spring was bright and gay , but which time has been conti- nually stealing from his ...
... ancients have continued to delight through all the changes of human manners , he contented himself with a deciduous laurel , of which the verdure in its spring was bright and gay , but which time has been conti- nually stealing from his ...
Pàgina 66
... ancients in every kind of poetry but tragedy . It may be affirmed , without any encomiastic fer- vour , that he brought to his poetic labours a mind replete with learning , and that his pages are embel- lished with all the ornaments ...
... ancients in every kind of poetry but tragedy . It may be affirmed , without any encomiastic fer- vour , that he brought to his poetic labours a mind replete with learning , and that his pages are embel- lished with all the ornaments ...
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