The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1C. Bathurst, 1783 |
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... forming defcriptions , they looked out not for images , but for conceits . Night has been a common fubject , which poets have contended to adorn . Dryden's Night is well known ; Donne's is as follows : Thou feeft me here at midnight ...
... forming defcriptions , they looked out not for images , but for conceits . Night has been a common fubject , which poets have contended to adorn . Dryden's Night is well known ; Donne's is as follows : Thou feeft me here at midnight ...
Pàgina 60
... gave . If he was formed by nature for one kind of writing more than for another , his power feems to have been greatest in the fa- miliar and the festive . The The next clafs of his poems is called The Mistress 60 C : O W LE Y.
... gave . If he was formed by nature for one kind of writing more than for another , his power feems to have been greatest in the fa- miliar and the festive . The The next clafs of his poems is called The Mistress 60 C : O W LE Y.
Pàgina 70
... forming lie , Close in their facred fecundine afleep . The fame thought is more generally , and therefore more poetically , expreffed by Cafi- mir , a writer who has many of the beauties and faults of Cowley : Omnibus mundi Dominator ...
... forming lie , Close in their facred fecundine afleep . The fame thought is more generally , and therefore more poetically , expreffed by Cafi- mir , a writer who has many of the beauties and faults of Cowley : Omnibus mundi Dominator ...
Pàgina 83
... formed rather from the Odyssey than the Iliad ; and many artifices of diversification are employed , with the skill of a man acquainted with the best models . The paft is recalled by narration , and the future anticipated by vifion but ...
... formed rather from the Odyssey than the Iliad ; and many artifices of diversification are employed , with the skill of a man acquainted with the best models . The paft is recalled by narration , and the future anticipated by vifion but ...
Pàgina 94
... the kind releafing knell . His heroick lines are often formed of mo- nofyllables ; but yet they are fometimes ( weet and fonorous . He fays of the Meffiah , 7 Round Round the whole earth his dreaded name shall found , 94 COWL E Ÿ .
... the kind releafing knell . His heroick lines are often formed of mo- nofyllables ; but yet they are fometimes ( weet and fonorous . He fays of the Meffiah , 7 Round Round the whole earth his dreaded name shall found , 94 COWL E Ÿ .
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