The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1C. Bathurst, 1783 |
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... language have deservedly fet him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friend- ship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life of Cow ley ...
... language have deservedly fet him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friend- ship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life of Cow ley ...
Pàgina 4
... language , but of com- prehenfion of things , as to more tardy minds feems fcarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , fince a volume of his poems was not only written but printed in his thirteenth ...
... language , but of com- prehenfion of things , as to more tardy minds feems fcarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , fince a volume of his poems was not only written but printed in his thirteenth ...
Pàgina 17
... language ; Cowley , without much lofs of purity or elegance , accommo- dates the diction of Rome to his own con ceptions . • At the Restoration , after all the diligence of his long service , and with consciousness not only of the merit ...
... language ; Cowley , without much lofs of purity or elegance , accommo- dates the diction of Rome to his own con ceptions . • At the Restoration , after all the diligence of his long service , and with consciousness not only of the merit ...
Pàgina 27
... language . 146 If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be confidered as Wit , which is at once natural and new , that which , though not obvious , is , upon its first pro duction , acknowledged to be juft ; if it be that ...
... language . 146 If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be confidered as Wit , which is at once natural and new , that which , though not obvious , is , upon its first pro duction , acknowledged to be juft ; if it be that ...
Pàgina 60
... language , and the familiar part of lan- guage continues long the fame : the dialogue of comedy , when it is transcribed from popu- lar manners and real life , is read from age to age with equal pleasure . The artifice of in- verfion ...
... language , and the familiar part of lan- guage continues long the fame : the dialogue of comedy , when it is transcribed from popu- lar manners and real life , is read from age to age with equal pleasure . The artifice of in- verfion ...
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