The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Methuen, 1896 |
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Pàgina xiv
... pleasing that I can forgive him who resolves to think it true . ' That is not the language of a man who is resolved to think it true himself . : The production of a certain species of pleasure being the object of poetry , it next falls ...
... pleasing that I can forgive him who resolves to think it true . ' That is not the language of a man who is resolved to think it true himself . : The production of a certain species of pleasure being the object of poetry , it next falls ...
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... pleasing has in different men produced actions of heroism , and effusions of wit ; but it seems as reasonable to appear the champion as the poet of an ' airy nothing , ' and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley might have learned from ...
... pleasing has in different men produced actions of heroism , and effusions of wit ; but it seems as reasonable to appear the champion as the poet of an ' airy nothing , ' and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley might have learned from ...
Pàgina 31
... pleasing specimen of the familiar descending to the burlesque . His two metrical disquisitions for and against Reason , are no mean specimens of metaphysical poetry . The stanzas against knowledge produce little conviction . In those ...
... pleasing specimen of the familiar descending to the burlesque . His two metrical disquisitions for and against Reason , are no mean specimens of metaphysical poetry . The stanzas against knowledge produce little conviction . In those ...
Pàgina 32
... pleasing than a faithful representation , having retained their spriteliness , but lost their simplicity . The Anacreon of Cowley , like the Homer of Pope , has admitted the decoration of some modern graces , by which he is undoubtedly ...
... pleasing than a faithful representation , having retained their spriteliness , but lost their simplicity . The Anacreon of Cowley , like the Homer of Pope , has admitted the decoration of some modern graces , by which he is undoubtedly ...
Pàgina 39
... pleasing fashion , and they that could do nothing else could write like Pindar . The rights of antiquity were invaded , and disorder tried to break into the Latin ; a poem on the Sheldonian Theatre , in which all kinds of verse are ...
... pleasing fashion , and they that could do nothing else could write like Pindar . The rights of antiquity were invaded , and disorder tried to break into the Latin ; a poem on the Sheldonian Theatre , in which all kinds of verse are ...
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