The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Stone and Kimball, 1896 |
Des de l'interior del llibre
Resultats 1 - 5 de 18.
Pàgina 3
... Sprat , an author whose pregnancy of imagination and elegance of language have deservedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a ...
... Sprat , an author whose pregnancy of imagination and elegance of language have deservedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a ...
Pàgina 4
... Sprat , to relate , that he had this defect in his memory at that time , that his teachers never could bring it to retain the ordinary rules of grammar . ' This is an instance of the natural desire of man to pro- pagate a wonder . It is ...
... Sprat , to relate , that he had this defect in his memory at that time , that his teachers never could bring it to retain the ordinary rules of grammar . ' This is an instance of the natural desire of man to pro- pagate a wonder . It is ...
Pàgina 8
... Sprat , ' passed of course into other hands ; ' and Cowley , being no longer useful at Paris , was in 1656 sent back into England , that , ' under pretence of privacy and retirement , he might take occasion of giving notice of the ...
... Sprat , ' passed of course into other hands ; ' and Cowley , being no longer useful at Paris , was in 1656 sent back into England , that , ' under pretence of privacy and retirement , he might take occasion of giving notice of the ...
Pàgina 9
... Sprat , with intention to ' dissemble the main design of his coming over , ' and as Mr. Wood relates , complying with the men then in power ( which was much taken notice of by the royal party ) , he obtained an order to be created ...
... Sprat , with intention to ' dissemble the main design of his coming over , ' and as Mr. Wood relates , complying with the men then in power ( which was much taken notice of by the royal party ) , he obtained an order to be created ...
Pàgina 11
... Sprat to the first exhibition , related to Mr. Dennis , ' that when they told Cowley how little favour had been shown him , he received the news of his ill- success , not with so much firmness as might have been expected from so great a ...
... Sprat to the first exhibition , related to Mr. Dennis , ' that when they told Cowley how little favour had been shown him , he received the news of his ill- success , not with so much firmness as might have been expected from so great a ...
Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
Frases i termes més freqüents
Absalom and Achitophel admired afterwards ancient appears beauties better blank verse censure character Charles Charles Dryden composition considered Cowley criticism death defend delight Denham diction diligence dramatic Dryden Duke Earl elegance English English poetry Euripides excellence fancy faults favour friends genius Georgics heaven heroic honour hope Hudibras images imagination imitation Jacob Tonson John Dryden Johnson kind King known labour Lady language Latin learned lines lived Lord Lord Conway Lord Roscommon Lycidas Milton mind nature never NIHIL numbers opinion Paradise Lost Parliament passages passions perhaps Philips Pindar play pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope pounds praise preface produced prose published reader reason relates remarks reputation rhyme satire says seems sentiments sometimes Sprat style supposed thee things thou thought tragedy translation truth versification Virgil virtue Waller Westminster Abbey words write written wrote