The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1C. Bathurst, 1783 |
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Pàgina 30
... , and volubility of fyllables . In perusing the works of this race of au thors , the mind is exercised either by recol lection or inquiry ; either fomething already learned learned is to be retrieved , or something new is -30 COWL E Y.
... , and volubility of fyllables . In perusing the works of this race of au thors , the mind is exercised either by recol lection or inquiry ; either fomething already learned learned is to be retrieved , or something new is -30 COWL E Y.
Pàgina 31
... something new is to be examined . If their greatness seldom elevates , their acuteness often surprises ; if the imagination is not always gratified , at leaft the powers of reflection and comparison are employed ; and in the mafs of ...
... something new is to be examined . If their greatness seldom elevates , their acuteness often surprises ; if the imagination is not always gratified , at leaft the powers of reflection and comparison are employed ; and in the mafs of ...
Pàgina 35
... Something to answer in fome proportion All the world's riches : and in good men , this Virtue , our form's form , and our foul's foul is . OF thoughts fo far - fetched , as to be not only unexpected , but unnatural , all their books are ...
... Something to answer in fome proportion All the world's riches : and in good men , this Virtue , our form's form , and our foul's foul is . OF thoughts fo far - fetched , as to be not only unexpected , but unnatural , all their books are ...
Pàgina 53
... something new and strange ; and that the writers fail to give delight , by their defire of exciting admiration . HAVING thus endeavoured to exhibit a general representation of the style and fentiments of the metaphyfical poets , it is ...
... something new and strange ; and that the writers fail to give delight , by their defire of exciting admiration . HAVING thus endeavoured to exhibit a general representation of the style and fentiments of the metaphyfical poets , it is ...
Pàgina 171
... something . He wrote letters , which Toland has pub- lished , to such men as he thought friends to the new commonwealth ; and even in the year of the Restoration he bated no jot of heart or hope , but was fantastical enough to think ...
... something . He wrote letters , which Toland has pub- lished , to such men as he thought friends to the new commonwealth ; and even in the year of the Restoration he bated no jot of heart or hope , but was fantastical enough to think ...
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