The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1C. Bathurst, 1783 |
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Pàgina 8
... actions of heroifm , and effufions of wit ; but it feems as reafonable to appear the champion as the poet of an " airy nothing , " and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley 66 V. Barnefii Anacreontem . } might have learned from his ...
... actions of heroifm , and effufions of wit ; but it feems as reafonable to appear the champion as the poet of an " airy nothing , " and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley 66 V. Barnefii Anacreontem . } might have learned from his ...
Pàgina 21
... actions are visible , though motives are fecret . Cowley certainly retired ; first to Barn - elms , and afterwards to Chertsey , in Surrey . He feems , however , to have loft part of his dread of the * bum of men , He thought himself ...
... actions are visible , though motives are fecret . Cowley certainly retired ; first to Barn - elms , and afterwards to Chertsey , in Surrey . He feems , however , to have loft part of his dread of the * bum of men , He thought himself ...
Pàgina 28
... actions of men , and the viciffitudes of life , without intereft and without emotion . Their courtship was void of fondnefs , and their lamentation of forrow . Their wifh was only to fay what they hoped had been never faid before . Nor ...
... actions of men , and the viciffitudes of life , without intereft and without emotion . Their courtship was void of fondnefs , and their lamentation of forrow . Their wifh was only to fay what they hoped had been never faid before . Nor ...
Pàgina 56
... action can display . He knew how to distin- guish , and how to commend the qualities of his companion ; but when he wishes to make us weep , he forgets to weep himself , and diverts his forrow by imagining how his crown of bays , if he ...
... action can display . He knew how to distin- guish , and how to commend the qualities of his companion ; but when he wishes to make us weep , he forgets to weep himself , and diverts his forrow by imagining how his crown of bays , if he ...
Pàgina 78
... action , that the reader of the Sa- cred Volume habitually confiders it as the pe- culiar mode of existence of a distinct fpecies of mankind , that lived and acted with man- ners uncommunicable ; fo that it is difficult even for ...
... action , that the reader of the Sa- cred Volume habitually confiders it as the pe- culiar mode of existence of a distinct fpecies of mankind , that lived and acted with man- ners uncommunicable ; fo that it is difficult even for ...
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