The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Stone and Kimball, 1896 |
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Pàgina xi
... 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 made interest for the ...
... 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 made interest for the ...
Pàgina xxi
... poetical honours . ' Well ; and having thus explicitly cited and impanelled his jury , what weight does he attach to its verdict ? Exactly none , when it conflicts with his own . The common sense of readers un- corrupted with literary ...
... poetical honours . ' Well ; and having thus explicitly cited and impanelled his jury , what weight does he attach to its verdict ? Exactly none , when it conflicts with his own . The common sense of readers un- corrupted with literary ...
Pàgina 4
... Cowley there is no doubt , since a volume of his poems was not only written but printed in his thirteenth year ; containing , with other poetical com- positions , The Tragical History of Pyramus and Thisbe , 2 LIVES OF THE POETS.
... Cowley there is no doubt , since a volume of his poems was not only written but printed in his thirteenth year ; containing , with other poetical com- positions , The Tragical History of Pyramus and Thisbe , 2 LIVES OF THE POETS.
Pàgina 5
... poetical dedication to Sir Kenelm Digby ; of whose acquaintance all his contemporaries seem to have been ambitious ; and Naufragium Joculare , a comedy written in Latin , but without due attention to the ancient models : for it is not ...
... poetical dedication to Sir Kenelm Digby ; of whose acquaintance all his contemporaries seem to have been ambitious ; and Naufragium Joculare , a comedy written in Latin , but without due attention to the ancient models : for it is not ...
Pàgina 21
... poetical account ; but Donne has extended them into worlds . If the lines are not easily understood , they may be read again : — ' On a round ball A workman , that hath copies by , can lay An Europe , Afric , and an Asia , And quickly ...
... poetical account ; but Donne has extended them into worlds . If the lines are not easily understood , they may be read again : — ' On a round ball A workman , that hath copies by , can lay An Europe , Afric , and an Asia , And quickly ...
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