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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Pàgina 11
... beauties of flowers , in va- rious measures ; and the fifth and sixth , the uses of trees , in heroic numbers . At the same time were produced , from the same university , the two great poets , Cowley and Milton , of dissimilar genius ...
... beauties of flowers , in va- rious measures ; and the fifth and sixth , the uses of trees , in heroic numbers . At the same time were produced , from the same university , the two great poets , Cowley and Milton , of dissimilar genius ...
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... beauties which common authors may justly think not only above their attainment , but above their ambition . To the Miscellanies succeed the Anacreontiques , or paraphrastical translations of some little poems , which pass , however ...
... beauties which common authors may justly think not only above their attainment , but above their ambition . To the Miscellanies succeed the Anacreontiques , or paraphrastical translations of some little poems , which pass , however ...
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... beauties and faults , and nearly in the same proportion . They are written with exube- rance of wit , and with copiousness of learning ; and it is truly asserted by Sprat , that the plentitude of the writer's knowledge flows in upon his ...
... beauties and faults , and nearly in the same proportion . They are written with exube- rance of wit , and with copiousness of learning ; and it is truly asserted by Sprat , that the plentitude of the writer's knowledge flows in upon his ...
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... beauties and faults of Cowley : Omnibus mundi dominator horis Aptat urgendas per inane pennas , Pars adhuc nido latet , et futoros Crescit in annos . Cowley , whatever was his subject , seems to have been carried , by a kind of destiny ...
... beauties and faults of Cowley : Omnibus mundi dominator horis Aptat urgendas per inane pennas , Pars adhuc nido latet , et futoros Crescit in annos . Cowley , whatever was his subject , seems to have been carried , by a kind of destiny ...
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... beauties ' deepest red ; An harmless flatt'ring meteor shone for hair , And fell adown his shoulders with loose care ; He cuts out a silk mantle from the skies , Where the most sprightly azure pleas'd the eyes ; This he with starry ...
... beauties ' deepest red ; An harmless flatt'ring meteor shone for hair , And fell adown his shoulders with loose care ; He cuts out a silk mantle from the skies , Where the most sprightly azure pleas'd the eyes ; This he with starry ...
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