Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1J. Murray, 1854 - 395 pàgines |
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Pàgina vi
... Cowley . Yet a criticism on The Faerie Queene ' would hardly have supplied Johnson with points of equal value to those which in Cowley led to his admirable observations on the so - called Metaphysical Poets ; nor is it possible to avoid ...
... Cowley . Yet a criticism on The Faerie Queene ' would hardly have supplied Johnson with points of equal value to those which in Cowley led to his admirable observations on the so - called Metaphysical Poets ; nor is it possible to avoid ...
Pàgina vii
... Cowley , sent to press in December , 1777. Waller , Denham , and Butler immediately followed . " I have written a little of the Lives of the Poets , " he says in his annual review of his life made Easter , 1778 , " I think with all my ...
... Cowley , sent to press in December , 1777. Waller , Denham , and Butler immediately followed . " I have written a little of the Lives of the Poets , " he says in his annual review of his life made Easter , 1778 , " I think with all my ...
Pàgina xii
... Cowley , he tells us in one place that Cowley's unfinished epic is in three books , and in another place ( a few pages on ) that it is in four . We may safely suspect that he had never read Cowley's Comedy - for he mis- takes its title ...
... Cowley , he tells us in one place that Cowley's unfinished epic is in three books , and in another place ( a few pages on ) that it is in four . We may safely suspect that he had never read Cowley's Comedy - for he mis- takes its title ...
Pàgina xvii
... Cowley , the earliest poet of whom he undertook to treat , had died within less than half a century of his own birth . One of the dreams of his youth had been a Life of Dryden , ' and we casually learn that ( with this very view ) he ...
... Cowley , the earliest poet of whom he undertook to treat , had died within less than half a century of his own birth . One of the dreams of his youth had been a Life of Dryden , ' and we casually learn that ( with this very view ) he ...
Pàgina xxvi
... Cowley's letters . " All people upon the place incline to that of union ; " so says Johnson : but Cowley wrote opinion . " Virgil has told the same thing to that purpose ; " so says Johnson : but Cowley wrote told me something ...
... Cowley's letters . " All people upon the place incline to that of union ; " so says Johnson : but Cowley wrote opinion . " Virgil has told the same thing to that purpose ; " so says Johnson : but Cowley wrote told me something ...
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