The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Stone and Kimball, 1896 |
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Pàgina xi
... given the mass of English poetry to choose from , we can hit upon more ' poetical paragraphs ' than the well - known passage from The Mourning Bride . What , too , we immediately ask , is to be said of the critical faculty of one who ...
... given the mass of English poetry to choose from , we can hit upon more ' poetical paragraphs ' than the well - known passage from The Mourning Bride . What , too , we immediately ask , is to be said of the critical faculty of one who ...
Pàgina xxix
... given in language of which no unimportant part , according to Lord Macaulay's foolish classification , is but half naturalised . ' That will serve for a single instance of the unerring accuracy with which Johnson is accustomed to hit ...
... given in language of which no unimportant part , according to Lord Macaulay's foolish classification , is but half naturalised . ' That will serve for a single instance of the unerring accuracy with which Johnson is accustomed to hit ...
Pàgina 3
... given the character , not the life of Cowley ; for he writes with so little detail , that scarcely anything is distinctly known , but all is shown confused and enlarged through the mist of panegyric . Abraham Cowley was born in the year ...
... given the character , not the life of Cowley ; for he writes with so little detail , that scarcely anything is distinctly known , but all is shown confused and enlarged through the mist of panegyric . Abraham Cowley was born in the year ...
Pàgina 4
... given such early proofs , not only of powers of language , but of comprehension of things , as to more tardy minds seems scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , since a volume of his poems was ...
... given such early proofs , not only of powers of language , but of comprehension of things , as to more tardy minds seems scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , since a volume of his poems was ...
Pàgina 8
... given some credit to the answer of his oracle . Some years afterwards , ' business , ' says Sprat , ' passed of course into other hands ; ' and Cowley , being no longer useful at Paris , was in 1656 sent back into England , that ...
... given some credit to the answer of his oracle . Some years afterwards , ' business , ' says Sprat , ' passed of course into other hands ; ' and Cowley , being no longer useful at Paris , was in 1656 sent back into England , that ...
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