The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their WorksG. Clark and son, 1847 - 644 pàgines |
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... language have deservedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or am- bition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life of Cowley ...
... language have deservedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or am- bition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life of Cowley ...
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... language , but of comprehension of things , as to more tardy minds seem scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , since a volume of his poems was not only written but printed in his thirteenth year ...
... language , but of comprehension of things , as to more tardy minds seem scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , since a volume of his poems was not only written but printed in his thirteenth year ...
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... language . Cowley without much loss of purity or elegance , accommodates the diction of Rome to his own conceptions . At the Restoration , after all the diligence of his long service , and with consciousness not only of the merit of ...
... language . Cowley without much loss of purity or elegance , accommodates the diction of Rome to his own conceptions . At the Restoration , after all the diligence of his long service , and with consciousness not only of the merit of ...
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... language . If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be consi- dered as wit which is at once natural and new , that which , though not obvious , is , upon its first production , acknowledged to be just ; if it be that which ...
... language . If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be consi- dered as wit which is at once natural and new , that which , though not obvious , is , upon its first production , acknowledged to be just ; if it be that which ...
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... language , and the familiar part of language continues long the same ; the dialogue of comedy , when it is transcribed from popular manners and real life , is read from age to age with equal pleasure . The ar tifices of inversion , by ...
... language , and the familiar part of language continues long the same ; the dialogue of comedy , when it is transcribed from popular manners and real life , is read from age to age with equal pleasure . The ar tifices of inversion , by ...
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