Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1868 |
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... performance , the work of a superior mind anxious to cavil and find fault : its depreciatory tone has , however , been far from catching , and Gray has had ample justice done him in the general admiration of the world . But Johnson was ...
... performance , the work of a superior mind anxious to cavil and find fault : its depreciatory tone has , however , been far from catching , and Gray has had ample justice done him in the general admiration of the world . But Johnson was ...
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... performances of Cowley and Milton be compared ( for May I hold to be superior to both ) , the advantage seems to lie on the side of Cowley . " Milton is generally content to express the thoughts of the ancients in their language ...
... performances of Cowley and Milton be compared ( for May I hold to be superior to both ) , the advantage seems to lie on the side of Cowley . " Milton is generally content to express the thoughts of the ancients in their language ...
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... performance Suckling could have brought the gaiety , but not the know- ledge : Dryden could have supplied the knowledge , but not the gaiety . The verses to Davenant , which are vigorously begun , and happily concluded , contain some ...
... performance Suckling could have brought the gaiety , but not the know- ledge : Dryden could have supplied the knowledge , but not the gaiety . The verses to Davenant , which are vigorously begun , and happily concluded , contain some ...
Pàgina 70
... performances by their just value , and has therefore closed his ' Miscellanies ' with the verses upon Crashaw , which apparently excel all that have gone before them , and in which there are beauties which common authors may justly ...
... performances by their just value , and has therefore closed his ' Miscellanies ' with the verses upon Crashaw , which apparently excel all that have gone before them , and in which there are beauties which common authors may justly ...
Pàgina 100
... performance was not his own , but that he had bought it of a vicar for forty pounds . The same attempt was made to rob Addison of his ' Cato , ' and Pope of his ' Essay on Criticism . ' In 1647 , the distresses of the royal family ...
... performance was not his own , but that he had bought it of a vicar for forty pounds . The same attempt was made to rob Addison of his ' Cato , ' and Pope of his ' Essay on Criticism . ' In 1647 , the distresses of the royal family ...
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