The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1C. Bathurst, 1783 |
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Pàgina 1
... writes with fo little detail , that fcarcely any thing is diftinctly known , but all is fhewn confused and enlarged through the mist of panegyrick . ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in the year one thousand fix hundred and eigh- teen . His ...
... writes with fo little detail , that fcarcely any thing is diftinctly known , but all is fhewn confused and enlarged through the mist of panegyrick . ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in the year one thousand fix hundred and eigh- teen . His ...
Pàgina 8
... ; but it feems as reafonable to appear the champion as the poet of an " airy nothing , " and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley 66 V. Barnefii Anacreontem . } might have learned from his master Pindar to call might 8 COWLEY .
... ; but it feems as reafonable to appear the champion as the poet of an " airy nothing , " and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley 66 V. Barnefii Anacreontem . } might have learned from his master Pindar to call might 8 COWLEY .
Pàgina 23
... write this " in pain , and can fay no more : Verbum * Sapienti . " He did not long enjoy the pleasure or fuffer the uneafinefs of folitude ; for he died at the Porch - house in Chertsey in 1667 , in the 49th year of his * age . Now in ...
... write this " in pain , and can fay no more : Verbum * Sapienti . " He did not long enjoy the pleasure or fuffer the uneafinefs of folitude ; for he died at the Porch - house in Chertsey in 1667 , in the 49th year of his * age . Now in ...
Pàgina 24
... writing when the feuds of the civil war were yet recent , and the minds of either party eafily irritated , was obliged to pass over many transactions in general ex- preffions , and to leave curiofity often un fatisfied . What he did not ...
... writing when the feuds of the civil war were yet recent , and the minds of either party eafily irritated , was obliged to pass over many transactions in general ex- preffions , and to leave curiofity often un fatisfied . What he did not ...
Pàgina 25
... in rhyme , inftead of writing poe try , they only wrote verfes , and very often fuch verfes as ftood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was was fo imperfect , that they were only found to 6OWLE Y. 25.
... in rhyme , inftead of writing poe try , they only wrote verfes , and very often fuch verfes as ftood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was was fo imperfect , that they were only found to 6OWLE Y. 25.
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