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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... performances of Cowley and Milton be 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 ...
... performances of Cowley and Milton be 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 ...
Pàgina 37
... mo- ralist , the politician , and the critic , mingle their influence even in this airy frolic of genius . To such a performance Suckling could have brought the gaity , but not the knowledge ; Dryden could have COWLEY . 37.
... mo- ralist , the politician , and the critic , mingle their influence even in this airy frolic of genius . To such a performance Suckling could have brought the gaity , but not the knowledge ; Dryden could have COWLEY . 37.
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... performances by their just value , and has therefore closed his Miscellanies with the verses upon Cra- shaw , which apparently excel all that have gone before them , and in which there are beauties which common authors may justly think ...
... performances by their just value , and has therefore closed his Miscellanies with the verses upon Cra- shaw , which apparently excel all that have gone before them , and in which there are beauties which common authors may justly think ...
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... performance of the work . Sacred history has been always read with sub- missive reverence , and an imagination overawed and controuled . We have been accustomed to ac- quiesce in the nakedness and simplicity of the au- thentic narrative ...
... performance of the work . Sacred history has been always read with sub- missive reverence , and an imagination overawed and controuled . We have been accustomed to ac- quiesce in the nakedness and simplicity of the au- thentic narrative ...
Pàgina 69
... Cooper's Hill . " This poem had such reputation as to excite the common artifice by which envy degrades excel- Ience . A report was spread , that the performance was 4 not his own , but that he had bought DENHAM . 69.
... Cooper's Hill . " This poem had such reputation as to excite the common artifice by which envy degrades excel- Ience . A report was spread , that the performance was 4 not his own , but that he had bought DENHAM . 69.
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