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 13
... gave him so good a report , That Apollo gave heed to all he could say : Nor would he have had , ' tis thought , COWLEY . 13.
... gave him so good a report , That Apollo gave heed to all he could say : Nor would he have had , ' tis thought , COWLEY . 13.
Pàgina 33
... gave a piteous groan , and so it broke : In vain it something would have spoke ; The love within too strong for❜t was , Like poison put into a Venice - glass . COWLEY . In forming descriptions , they looked out , not for images , but ...
... gave a piteous groan , and so it broke : In vain it something would have spoke ; The love within too strong for❜t was , Like poison put into a Venice - glass . COWLEY . In forming descriptions , they looked out , not for images , but ...
Pàgina 40
... gave . If he was formed by nature for one kind of writing more than for another , his power seems to have been greatest in the familiar and the festive . The next class of his poems is called " The Mis- tress , " of which it is not ...
... gave . If he was formed by nature for one kind of writing more than for another , his power seems to have been greatest in the familiar and the festive . The next class of his poems is called " The Mis- tress , " of which it is not ...
Pàgina 68
... gave no prognostics of his future eminence ; nor was suspected to conceal , under sluggishness and laxity , a genius born to improve the literature of his country . When he was , three years afterwards , removed to DENHAM -
... gave no prognostics of his future eminence ; nor was suspected to conceal , under sluggishness and laxity , a genius born to improve the literature of his country . When he was , three years afterwards , removed to DENHAM -
Pàgina 83
... gave him no shame . He took both the usual degrees ; that of bache- lor in 1628 , and that of master in 1632 ; but he left the university with no kindness for its institution , alienated either by the injudicious severity of his ...
... gave him no shame . He took both the usual degrees ; that of bache- lor in 1628 , and that of master in 1632 ; but he left the university with no kindness for its institution , alienated either by the injudicious severity of his ...
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