The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1Benjamin Warner, no. 171, Market street; and Benjamin C. Buzby, no. 28, North Third street, 1819 - 905 pàgines |
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... thoughts of the ancients in their language ; Cowley , without much loss of purity or elegance , accommodates the diction of Rome to his own conceptions . At the restoration , after all the diligence of his 14 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... thoughts of the ancients in their language ; Cowley , without much loss of purity or elegance , accommodates the diction of Rome to his own conceptions . At the restoration , after all the diligence of his 14 LIVES OF THE POETS .
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... diction . But Pope's account of wit is undoubtedly erroneous : he depresses it below its natu- ral dignity , and reduces it from strength of thought to hap- piness of language . If , by a more noble and more adequate conception , that ...
... diction . But Pope's account of wit is undoubtedly erroneous : he depresses it below its natu- ral dignity , and reduces it from strength of thought to hap- piness of language . If , by a more noble and more adequate conception , that ...
Pàgina 38
... diction shews nothing of the mould of time , and the sentiments are at no great distance from our present habitudes of thought . Real mirth must be always natural , and nature is uniform . Men have been wise in very different modes ...
... diction shews nothing of the mould of time , and the sentiments are at no great distance from our present habitudes of thought . Real mirth must be always natural , and nature is uniform . Men have been wise in very different modes ...
Pàgina 41
... diction , could imagine , either waking or dreaming , that he imitated Pindar . In the following odes , where Cowley chooses his own subjects , he sometimes rises to dignity truly Pindaric ; and , if some deficiencies of language be ...
... diction , could imagine , either waking or dreaming , that he imitated Pindar . In the following odes , where Cowley chooses his own subjects , he sometimes rises to dignity truly Pindaric ; and , if some deficiencies of language be ...
Pàgina 53
... diction was in his own time censured as negligent . He seems not to have known , or not to have considered , that words , being arbitrary , must owe their power to asso- ciation , and have the influence , and that only , which cus ...
... diction was in his own time censured as negligent . He seems not to have known , or not to have considered , that words , being arbitrary , must owe their power to asso- ciation , and have the influence , and that only , which cus ...
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