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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... seem to have been ambitious ; and " Naufragium Joculare , " a comedy written in Latin , but without due attention to ... seems to be now universally neg- lected . At the beginning of the civil war , as the prince passed through Cambridge ...
... seem to have been ambitious ; and " Naufragium Joculare , " a comedy written in Latin , but without due attention to ... seems to be now universally neg- lected . At the beginning of the civil war , as the prince passed through Cambridge ...
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... 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 " the dream of a shadow . " It is surely not difficult , in ...
... 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 " the dream of a shadow . " It is surely not difficult , in ...
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... seems to have inserted something sup- pressed in subsequent editions , which was inter- preted to denote some relaxation of his loyalty , In this preface he declares , that " his desire had been for some days past , and did still very ...
... seems to have inserted something sup- pressed in subsequent editions , which was inter- preted to denote some relaxation of his loyalty , In this preface he declares , that " his desire had been for some days past , and did still very ...
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... the verses on Oliver's death , in which Wood's narrative seems to imply something encomiastic , there has been no appearance . There is a discourse concerning his government , indeed , with verses in- termixed 10 COWLEY .
... the verses on Oliver's death , in which Wood's narrative seems to imply something encomiastic , there has been no appearance . There is a discourse concerning his government , indeed , with verses in- termixed 10 COWLEY .
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... 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 , without COWLEY . 11.
... 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 , without COWLEY . 11.
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