The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their WorksPrinted at the Stanhope Press, by Charles Whittingham ... for John Sharpe, 1805 - 1135 pàgines |
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... perusal of Richardson's treatise . By his mother's solicitation he was admitted into Westminster - school , where he was soon distinguish- ed . He was wont , says Sprat , to relate , ' That he had this defect in his memory at that time ...
... perusal of Richardson's treatise . By his mother's solicitation he was admitted into Westminster - school , where he was soon distinguish- ed . He was wont , says Sprat , to relate , ' That he had this defect in his memory at that time ...
Pàgina 19
... perusal of his work , to which my narration can be considered only as a slender supplement . Cowley , like other poets who have written with narrow views , and , instead of tracing intellectual pleasures in the minds of men , paid their ...
... perusal of his work , to which my narration can be considered only as a slender supplement . Cowley , like other poets who have written with narrow views , and , instead of tracing intellectual pleasures in the minds of men , paid their ...
Pàgina 41
... perusal of his work will sufficiently evince . 6 Cowley's Mistress ' has no power of seduction : she plays round the head , but reaches not the heart . ' Her beauty and absence , her kindness and cruelty , her disdain and inconstancy ...
... perusal of his work will sufficiently evince . 6 Cowley's Mistress ' has no power of seduction : she plays round the head , but reaches not the heart . ' Her beauty and absence , her kindness and cruelty , her disdain and inconstancy ...
Pàgina 54
... . The second line has in it more of pedantry than perhaps can be found in any other stanza of the poem . In the perusal of the Davideis , ' as of all Cowley's works , we find wit and learning unprofitably squan- dered 54 COWLEY .
... . The second line has in it more of pedantry than perhaps can be found in any other stanza of the poem . In the perusal of the Davideis , ' as of all Cowley's works , we find wit and learning unprofitably squan- dered 54 COWLEY .
Pàgina 70
... perusal of our earlier versions ; some of them are the works of men well qualified , not only by critical knowledge , but by poetical genius , who yet , by a mistaken ambition of exactness , degraded at once their originals and ...
... perusal of our earlier versions ; some of them are the works of men well qualified , not only by critical knowledge , but by poetical genius , who yet , by a mistaken ambition of exactness , degraded at once their originals and ...
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