The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their WorksG. Clark and son, 1847 - 644 pàgines |
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... Milton , and Pope , might be said " to lisp in numbers ; " and have given such early proofs , not only of powers of language , but of comprehension of things , as to more tardy minds seem scarcely credible . But of the learned ...
... Milton , and Pope , might be said " to lisp in numbers ; " and have given such early proofs , not only of powers of language , but of comprehension of things , as to more tardy minds seem scarcely credible . But of the learned ...
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... 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 without much loss of purity ...
... 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 without much loss of purity ...
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... amiable of mankind ; and this posthumous praise may safely be credited , as it has never been contradicted by envy or by faction . # L'Allegro of Milton . Such are the remarks and memorials which I have been 14 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... amiable of mankind ; and this posthumous praise may safely be credited , as it has never been contradicted by envy or by faction . # L'Allegro of Milton . Such are the remarks and memorials which I have been 14 LIVES OF THE POETS .
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... Milton . Denham and Waller , Denham , Waller sought another way to fame , by improving the harmony of our numbers . Milton tried the metaphysic style only in his lines upon Hobson the Carrier . Cowley adopted it , and excelled his ...
... Milton . Denham and Waller , Denham , Waller sought another way to fame , by improving the harmony of our numbers . Milton tried the metaphysic style only in his lines upon Hobson the Carrier . Cowley adopted it , and excelled his ...
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... Milton is believed to have wanted , the skill to rate his performances by their just value , and has therefore closed his miscellanies with the verses upon Crashaw , which apparently excel all that have gone before them , and in which ...
... Milton is believed to have wanted , the skill to rate his performances by their just value , and has therefore closed his miscellanies with the verses upon Crashaw , which apparently excel all that have gone before them , and in which ...
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