Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1J. Murray, 1854 - 395 pàgines |
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Pàgina xvii
... 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 sought for information about him from Cibber , whose means of ...
... 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 sought for information about him from Cibber , whose means of ...
Pàgina xxvi
... died , he made his way on foot to 10 Let me give two instances in an extract from one of 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 ...
... died , he made his way on foot to 10 Let me give two instances in an extract from one of 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 ...
Pàgina 3
... died before the 2 1 In 1668 in Latin , before a collection of Cowley's Latin Poems , afterwards in English , and enlarged before his English Works , 1669 , folio . It is , 2 Johnson's account of Cowley's parentage is entirely erroneous ...
... died before the 2 1 In 1668 in Latin , before a collection of Cowley's Latin Poems , afterwards in English , and enlarged before his English Works , 1669 , folio . It is , 2 Johnson's account of Cowley's parentage is entirely erroneous ...
Pàgina 17
... died at the Porch - house29 in Chertsey in 1667,30 in the 49th year of his age.31 32 He was buried with great pomp near Chaucer and Spenser ; 3 and King Charles pronounced , " That Mr. Cowley had not left behind him a better man in ...
... died at the Porch - house29 in Chertsey in 1667,30 in the 49th year of his age.31 32 He was buried with great pomp near Chaucer and Spenser ; 3 and King Charles pronounced , " That Mr. Cowley had not left behind him a better man in ...
Pàgina 31
... a lover : " C Though in thy thoughts scarce any tracts have been So much as of original sin , Such charms thy beauty wears as might Desires in dying confest saints excite . Thou with strange adultery Dost in each breast a brothel.
... a lover : " C Though in thy thoughts scarce any tracts have been So much as of original sin , Such charms thy beauty wears as might Desires in dying confest saints excite . Thou with strange adultery Dost in each breast a brothel.
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