The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1C. Bathurst, 1783 |
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... styles himself the melancholy Cowley . This met with the ufual fortune of complaints , and feems to have ex- cited more contempt than pity . C 2 Thefe These unlucky incidents are brought , ma- liciously enough , COWLEY , 19.
... styles himself the melancholy Cowley . This met with the ufual fortune of complaints , and feems to have ex- cited more contempt than pity . C 2 Thefe These unlucky incidents are brought , ma- liciously enough , COWLEY , 19.
Pàgina 32
... style remained chiefly with Cowley ; Suckling could not reach it , and Milton difdained it . CRITICAL REMARKs are not eafily under- stood without examples ; and I have therefore collected inftances of the modes of writing by which this ...
... style remained chiefly with Cowley ; Suckling could not reach it , and Milton difdained it . CRITICAL REMARKs are not eafily under- stood without examples ; and I have therefore collected inftances of the modes of writing by which this ...
Pàgina 53
... style and fentiments of the metaphyfical poets , it is now proper to examine particularly the works of Cowley , who was almoft the laft of that race , and undoubtedly the best . His Mifcellanies contain a collection of fhort ...
... style and fentiments of the metaphyfical poets , it is now proper to examine particularly the works of Cowley , who was almoft the laft of that race , and undoubtedly the best . His Mifcellanies contain a collection of fhort ...
Pàgina 131
... style ; and Francini wrote him an ode , of which the first stanza is only empty noife ; the rest are perhaps too diffufe on common topicks : but the last is natural and beautiful . From Florence he went to Sienna , and from Sienna to ...
... style ; and Francini wrote him an ode , of which the first stanza is only empty noife ; the rest are perhaps too diffufe on common topicks : but the last is natural and beautiful . From Florence he went to Sienna , and from Sienna to ...
Pàgina 143
... style of his piece is rough , and fuch perhaps was that of his antagonist . This roughness he justifies , by great examples , in a long digreffion . Sometimes he tries to be humorous : " Left I fhould take him for " fome chaplain in ...
... style of his piece is rough , and fuch perhaps was that of his antagonist . This roughness he justifies , by great examples , in a long digreffion . Sometimes he tries to be humorous : " Left I fhould take him for " fome chaplain in ...
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