Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1J. Murray, 1854 - 395 pàgines |
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... considered poets were admitted by the courtesy of criticism into both editions , the right of selection resting , in both instances oddly enough , with the booksellers , in whose judgment , as men of trade , the Poet whose works were ...
... considered poets were admitted by the courtesy of criticism into both editions , the right of selection resting , in both instances oddly enough , with the booksellers , in whose judgment , as men of trade , the Poet whose works were ...
Pàgina xvii
... considered the Life of Cowley as the best of the series on account , says Boswell , of the dissertation it contains . on the Metaphysical Poets , and the careful discrimination to be found in it of the characteristics of Wit . Yet few ...
... considered the Life of Cowley as the best of the series on account , says Boswell , of the dissertation it contains . on the Metaphysical Poets , and the careful discrimination to be found in it of the characteristics of Wit . Yet few ...
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... considered as merely ludicrous , or at most as an ostentatious display of scholarship ; but the manners of that time were so tinged with superstition , that I cannot but suspect Cowley of having consulted on this great occasion the ...
... considered as merely ludicrous , or at most as an ostentatious display of scholarship ; but the manners of that time were so tinged with superstition , that I cannot but suspect Cowley of having consulted on this great occasion the ...
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... considered as a satire on the royalists . 23 That he might shorten this tedious suspense , he published his pretensions and his discontent in an ode called ' The Com- plaint , ' in which he styles himself the melancholy Cowley . This ...
... considered as a satire on the royalists . 23 That he might shorten this tedious suspense , he published his pretensions and his discontent in an ode called ' The Com- plaint , ' in which he styles himself the melancholy Cowley . This ...
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... considered only as a slender supplement . 33 Cowley , like other poets who have written with narrow views , and , instead of tracing intellectual pleasures in the mind of man , paid their court to temporary prejudices , has been at one ...
... considered only as a slender supplement . 33 Cowley , like other poets who have written with narrow views , and , instead of tracing intellectual pleasures in the mind of man , paid their court to temporary prejudices , has been at one ...
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