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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... produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life , of Cowley ; for he writes with so little detail , that scarcely any thing is dis- tinctly known , but all is shewn confused and en- larged ...
... produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life , of Cowley ; for he writes with so little detail , that scarcely any thing is dis- tinctly known , but all is shewn confused and en- larged ...
Pàgina 2
... produce . that particular designation of mind , and propensity for some certain science or employment , which is commonly called genius . The true genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally deter- mined to some particular ...
... produce . that particular designation of mind , and propensity for some certain science or employment , which is commonly called genius . The true genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally deter- mined to some particular ...
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... produced a comedy called " Love's Riddle , " though it was not pub- lished till he had been some time at Cambridge . This comedy is of the pastoral kind , which requires no acquaintance with the living world , and there- fore the time ...
... produced a comedy called " Love's Riddle , " though it was not pub- lished till he had been some time at Cambridge . This comedy is of the pastoral kind , which requires no acquaintance with the living world , and there- fore the time ...
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... produced actions of heroism , and effusions of wit ; but it seems as rea- sonable to appear the champion as the poet of an " airy nothing , " and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley might have learned from his master Pindar to call ...
... produced actions of heroism , and effusions of wit ; but it seems as rea- sonable to appear the champion as the poet of an " airy nothing , " and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley might have learned from his master Pindar to call ...
Pàgina 11
... 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 , till their works and May's po- em ...
... 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 , till their works and May's po- em ...
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