The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their WorksG. Clark and son, 1847 - 644 pàgines |
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... produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life of Cowley ; for he ... produce that particular designation of mind , and propensity for some certain science or employment , which is commonly ...
... produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life of Cowley ; for he ... produce that particular designation of mind , and propensity for some certain science or employment , which is commonly ...
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... produced a comedy called " Love's Riddle , " though it was not published till he had been some time at Cambridge . This comedy is of the pastoral kind , which requires no acquaintance with the living world , and therefore the time at ...
... produced a comedy called " Love's Riddle , " though it was not published till he had been some time at Cambridge . This comedy is of the pastoral kind , which requires no acquaintance with the living world , and therefore the time at ...
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... produced acts of heroism , and effu- sions of wit ; but it seems as reasonable 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 ...
... produced acts of heroism , and effu- sions of wit ; but it seems as reasonable 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 ...
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... 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 poem ...
... 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 poem ...
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... produced by aggregation , and littleness by dispersion . Great thoughts are always general , and consist in positions not li mited by exceptions , and in descriptions not descending to minute- ness . It is with great propriety that ...
... produced by aggregation , and littleness by dispersion . Great thoughts are always general , and consist in positions not li mited by exceptions , and in descriptions not descending to minute- ness . It is with great propriety that ...
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