The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1C. Bathurst, 1783 |
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Pàgina 57
... against Reason , are no mean fpecimens of metaphyfical poetry . The ftanzas against knowledge produce little conviction . In those which are intended to exalt the human fa- culties , culties , Reafon has its proper task affigned it ...
... against Reason , are no mean fpecimens of metaphyfical poetry . The ftanzas against knowledge produce little conviction . In those which are intended to exalt the human fa- culties , culties , Reafon has its proper task affigned it ...
Pàgina 79
... against Æneas , he fixes the attention on its bulk and weight : Saxum circumfpicit ingens , Saxum antiquum , ingens , campó quod forte .jacebat Limes agro pofitus , litem ut difcerneret arvis . Cowley fays of the stone with which Cain ...
... against Æneas , he fixes the attention on its bulk and weight : Saxum circumfpicit ingens , Saxum antiquum , ingens , campó quod forte .jacebat Limes agro pofitus , litem ut difcerneret arvis . Cowley fays of the stone with which Cain ...
Pàgina 108
... against peace in the close Committee " be excepted . For grave burlesque , however , his imitation of Davenant fhews him to have been well qualified . 66 Of his more elevated occafional poems there is perhaps none that does not deserve ...
... against peace in the close Committee " be excepted . For grave burlesque , however , his imitation of Davenant fhews him to have been well qualified . 66 Of his more elevated occafional poems there is perhaps none that does not deserve ...
Pàgina 117
... bath " Depreft thus low , it cannot reach my faith . " " Thus by his fraud and our own faith o'er- come , " A feigned tear destroys us , against whom I 3 " Tydides " Tydides nor Achilles could prevail , " Nor ten DE NI HA M. 117.
... bath " Depreft thus low , it cannot reach my faith . " " Thus by his fraud and our own faith o'er- come , " A feigned tear destroys us , against whom I 3 " Tydides " Tydides nor Achilles could prevail , " Nor ten DE NI HA M. 117.
Pàgina 131
... against the waste of time , and a cer- tain prefervative from oblivion . At Florence he could not indeed com- plain that his merit wanted distinction . Carlo Dati prefented him with an encomiaftick in- fcription , in the tumid lapidary ...
... against the waste of time , and a cer- tain prefervative from oblivion . At Florence he could not indeed com- plain that his merit wanted distinction . Carlo Dati prefented him with an encomiaftick in- fcription , in the tumid lapidary ...
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