The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1C. Bathurst, 1783 |
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... excellence is truth : he that profeffes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a real lover , and Laura doubtless deserved his tenderness . Of Cowley , we are told by Barnes * , who had means enough of informa- tion , that ...
... excellence is truth : he that profeffes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a real lover , and Laura doubtless deserved his tenderness . Of Cowley , we are told by Barnes * , who had means enough of informa- tion , that ...
Pàgina 19
... excellence . For the rejection of this play , it is difficult how to find the reafon it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing atten- tion and exciting merriment . From the charge of difaffection he exculpates ...
... excellence . For the rejection of this play , it is difficult how to find the reafon it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing atten- tion and exciting merriment . From the charge of difaffection he exculpates ...
Pàgina 53
... Such an affemblage of diverfified excellence no other poet has hitherto afforded . To choose the þest , among many good , is one of the most E 3 hazar- hazardous attempts of criticism . I know not whether Scaliger COWLEY . 53.
... Such an affemblage of diverfified excellence no other poet has hitherto afforded . To choose the þest , among many good , is one of the most E 3 hazar- hazardous attempts of criticism . I know not whether Scaliger COWLEY . 53.
Pàgina 54
... Of all the paffages in which poets have exemplified their own precepts , none will eafily be found of greater excellence than that in which Cowley condemns exuberance of Wit : Yet Yet ' tis not to adorn and gild each part 54 COWLEY .
... Of all the paffages in which poets have exemplified their own precepts , none will eafily be found of greater excellence than that in which Cowley condemns exuberance of Wit : Yet Yet ' tis not to adorn and gild each part 54 COWLEY .
Pàgina 55
... heroes . In his poem on the death of Hervey , there is much praise , but little paffion , a very just and ample delineation of fuch virtues as a stu- E 4 dious 0 dious privacy admits , and fuch intellectual excellence as COWL E Y. 55.
... heroes . In his poem on the death of Hervey , there is much praise , but little paffion , a very just and ample delineation of fuch virtues as a stu- E 4 dious 0 dious privacy admits , and fuch intellectual excellence as COWL E Y. 55.
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