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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... numbers ; " and have given such early proofs , not only of powers of lan- guage , but of comprehension of things , as to more tardy minds seem scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , since a ...
... numbers ; " and have given such early proofs , not only of powers of lan- guage , but of comprehension of things , as to more tardy minds seem scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , since a ...
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... numbers . At the same time were produced , from the same university , the two great poets , Cowley and Milton , of dissimilar genius , of opposite principles , but concurring in the cultivation of Latin poetry ; in which the English ...
... numbers . At the same time were produced , from the same university , the two great poets , Cowley and Milton , of dissimilar genius , of opposite principles , but concurring in the cultivation of Latin poetry ; in which the English ...
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... numbers were inevitably disappointed ; and Cowley found his reward very tediously delayed . He had been promised by both Charles the First and Second , the mastership of the Savoy ; but he lost it , " says Wood , " by certain persons ...
... numbers were inevitably disappointed ; and Cowley found his reward very tediously delayed . He had been promised by both Charles the First and Second , the mastership of the Savoy ; but he lost it , " says Wood , " by certain persons ...
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... numbers . Milton tried the metaphysic style only in his lines upon Hobson the carrier . Cowley adopted it , and excelled his predecessors , having as much sentiment and more music . Suckling neither improved versification , nor abounded ...
... numbers . Milton tried the metaphysic style only in his lines upon Hobson the carrier . Cowley adopted it , and excelled his predecessors , having as much sentiment and more music . Suckling neither improved versification , nor abounded ...
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... number and fixt rules were brought . Water and air he for the tenor chose , Earth made the base ; the treble , flame arose . COWLEY , The tears of lovers are always of great poetical account ; but Donne has extended them into worlds ...
... number and fixt rules were brought . Water and air he for the tenor chose , Earth made the base ; the treble , flame arose . COWLEY , The tears of lovers are always of great poetical account ; but Donne has extended them into worlds ...
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