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 10
... shew him to have been above the affectation of unseasonable elegance , and to have known that the business of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetoric . One passage , however , seems not unworthy of some notice ...
... shew him to have been above the affectation of unseasonable elegance , and to have known that the business of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetoric . One passage , however , seems not unworthy of some notice ...
Pàgina 11
... " under these bonds till the general deliverance ; " it is therefore to be supposed , that he did not go to France , and act again for the King , without the con- Bent of his bondsman ; he did not shew his COWLEY . 11.
... " under these bonds till the general deliverance ; " it is therefore to be supposed , that he did not go to France , and act again for the King , without the con- Bent of his bondsman ; he did not shew his COWLEY . 11.
Pàgina 12
... shew his loyalty at the hazard of his friend , but by his friend's permission . Of the verses on Oliver's death , in which Wood's narrative seems to imply something encomiastic , there has been no appearance . There is a discourse ...
... shew his loyalty at the hazard of his friend , but by his friend's permission . Of the verses on Oliver's death , in which Wood's narrative seems to imply something encomiastic , there has been no appearance . There is a discourse ...
Pàgina 15
... shew their learning was their whole endeavour : but , unluckily resolving to shew it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for ...
... shew their learning was their whole endeavour : but , unluckily resolving to shew it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for ...
Pàgina 17
... shew . Each leaf did learned notions give . And th ' apples were demonstrative ; So clear their colour and divine , The very shade they cast did other lights outshine . On Anacreon continuing a lover in his old age ; Love was with thy ...
... shew . Each leaf did learned notions give . And th ' apples were demonstrative ; So clear their colour and divine , The very shade they cast did other lights outshine . On Anacreon continuing a lover in his old age ; Love was with thy ...
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