The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Methuen, 1896 |
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Pàgina xv
... beauties of art are those of which the effect is co - extended with rational nature or at least with the whole circle of polished life ; what is less than this can only be pretty , the plaything of fashion , and the amusement of a day ...
... beauties of art are those of which the effect is co - extended with rational nature or at least with the whole circle of polished life ; what is less than this can only be pretty , the plaything of fashion , and the amusement of a day ...
Pàgina xx
... beauties without the grossness of country life ' ( an assertion which Johnson lived to see refuted in practice , with his own sanction , by Crabbe ) , Lyttleton's early verses should be disposed of with the curt remark that they ' cant ...
... beauties without the grossness of country life ' ( an assertion which Johnson lived to see refuted in practice , with his own sanction , by Crabbe ) , Lyttleton's early verses should be disposed of with the curt remark that they ' cant ...
Pàgina 8
... beauties of Flowers , in various measures ; and in the fifth and sixth , the uses of Trees , in heroic numbers . At the same time were produced from the same university , the two great poets , Cowley and Milton , of dissimilar genius ...
... beauties of Flowers , in various measures ; and in the fifth and sixth , the uses of Trees , in heroic numbers . At the same time were produced from the same university , the two great poets , Cowley and Milton , of dissimilar genius ...
Pàgina 31
... have gone before them , and in which there are beauties which common authors may justly think not only above their attainment , but above their ambition . To the Miscellanies succeed the Anacreontics , or para- phrastical COWLEY 31.
... have gone before them , and in which there are beauties which common authors may justly think not only above their attainment , but above their ambition . To the Miscellanies succeed the Anacreontics , or para- phrastical COWLEY 31.
Pàgina 32
... to select any particular pieces for praise or censure . They have all the same beauties and faults , and nearly in the same proportion . They are written with exuberance of wit , and with copiousness of learning ; and 32 LIVES OF THE POETS.
... to select any particular pieces for praise or censure . They have all the same beauties and faults , and nearly in the same proportion . They are written with exuberance of wit , and with copiousness of learning ; and 32 LIVES OF THE POETS.
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