The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their WorksG. Clark and son, 1847 - 644 pàgines |
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... excellence is truth : he that professes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a real lover , and Laura doubtless deserved his tender . ness . Of Cowley , we are told by Barnes , who had means enough of information , that ...
... excellence is truth : he that professes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a real lover , and Laura doubtless deserved his tender . ness . Of Cowley , we are told by Barnes , who had means enough of information , that ...
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... excellence . For the rejection of this play it is difficult now to find the rea- son : it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of disaffection he exculpates ...
... excellence . For the rejection of this play it is difficult now to find the rea- son : it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of disaffection he exculpates ...
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... excellence no other poet has hitherto afforded . To choose the best , among many good is one of the most hazardous attempts of criticism . I know not whether Scaliger himself has persuaded many readers to join with him in his preference ...
... excellence no other poet has hitherto afforded . To choose the best , among many good is one of the most hazardous attempts of criticism . I know not whether Scaliger himself has persuaded many readers to join with him in his preference ...
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... excellence as a mind not yet called forth to action can display . He knew how to distinguish , and how to commend , the qualities of his companion ; but , when he wishes to make us weep , he forgets to weep himself , and diverts his ...
... excellence as a mind not yet called forth to action can display . He knew how to distinguish , and how to commend , the qualities of his companion ; but , when he wishes to make us weep , he forgets to weep himself , and diverts his ...
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... excellence . Clarendon represents him as having taken a flight beyond all that went before him and Milton is said to have declared , that the three greatest English poets were Spenser , Shakspeare , and Cowley . His manner he had in ...
... excellence . Clarendon represents him as having taken a flight beyond all that went before him and Milton is said to have declared , that the three greatest English poets were Spenser , Shakspeare , and Cowley . His manner he had in ...
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