The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their WorksG. Clark and son, 1847 - 644 pàgines |
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Pàgina 8
... seem scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , since a volume of his poems was ... seems to be now uni versally neglected . At the beginning of the civil war , as the Prince passed through Cambridge ...
... seem scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , since a volume of his poems was ... seems to be now uni versally neglected . At the beginning of the civil war , as the Prince passed through Cambridge ...
Pàgina 10
... seems not unworthy of some notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agitation : " The Scotch treaty , " says he , " is the only thing now in which we are vitally concerned : am one of the last hopers , and yet can- not now abstain ...
... seems not unworthy of some notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agitation : " The Scotch treaty , " says he , " is the only thing now in which we are vitally concerned : am one of the last hopers , and yet can- not now abstain ...
Pàgina 12
... seems to imply something encomiastic , there has been no appearance . There is a discourse concerning his government , indeed , with verses intermixed , but such as certainly gained its author no friends among the abettors of usurpation ...
... seems to imply something encomiastic , there has been no appearance . There is a discourse concerning his government , indeed , with verses intermixed , but such as certainly gained its author no friends among the abettors of usurpation ...
Pàgina 28
... seems to have copied , though with the inferiority of an imitator , The Holy Book like the eighth sphere doth shine With thousand lights of truth divine , So numberless the stars , that to our eye It makes all but one galaxy . Yet ...
... seems to have copied , though with the inferiority of an imitator , The Holy Book like the eighth sphere doth shine With thousand lights of truth divine , So numberless the stars , that to our eye It makes all but one galaxy . Yet ...
Pàgina 29
... seems to have been greatest in the familiar and the festive . The next class of his poems is called The Mistress , of which it is not necessary to select any particular pieces for praise or censure . They have all the same beauties and ...
... seems to have been greatest in the familiar and the festive . The next class of his poems is called The Mistress , of which it is not necessary to select any particular pieces for praise or censure . They have all the same beauties and ...
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