The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1C. Bathurst, 1783 |
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Pàgina 11
... present time would be confidered as merely ludicrous , or at most as an oftentatious dif play of scholarship ; but the manners of that time were fo tinged with fuperftition , that I cannot but fufpect Cowley of having con- fulted on ...
... present time would be confidered as merely ludicrous , or at most as an oftentatious dif play of scholarship ; but the manners of that time were fo tinged with fuperftition , that I cannot but fufpect Cowley of having con- fulted on ...
Pàgina 59
... present day , he has given rather a pleafing than a faithful reprefen- tation , having retained their spriteliness , but loft their fimplicity . The Anacreon of Cowley , like the Homer of Pope , has admitted the deco- ration of fome ...
... present day , he has given rather a pleafing than a faithful reprefen- tation , having retained their spriteliness , but loft their fimplicity . The Anacreon of Cowley , like the Homer of Pope , has admitted the deco- ration of fome ...
Pàgina 60
With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. tance from our present habitudes of thought . Real mirth must be always natural , and na- ture is uniform . Men have been wife in very different modes ; but they have always ...
With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. tance from our present habitudes of thought . Real mirth must be always natural , and na- ture is uniform . Men have been wife in very different modes ; but they have always ...
Pàgina 78
... fpangied with conceits , and conceits are all that the Davideis fupplies . One of the great fources of poetical de- light is defcription , or the power of present- ing pictures to the mind . Cowley gives in- ferences ing 78 . ་ ་ COWLEY со.
... fpangied with conceits , and conceits are all that the Davideis fupplies . One of the great fources of poetical de- light is defcription , or the power of present- ing pictures to the mind . Cowley gives in- ferences ing 78 . ་ ་ COWLEY со.
Pàgina 89
... fhort of fanctity are frequently offended ; and which would not be born in the present age , when devotion , perhaps not more fervent , is more delicate . 1 1 Having produced one paffage taken by Cowley from Donne Having COWL E Y. 89.
... fhort of fanctity are frequently offended ; and which would not be born in the present age , when devotion , perhaps not more fervent , is more delicate . 1 1 Having produced one paffage taken by Cowley from Donne Having COWL E Y. 89.
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