The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1James Sawers, 1818 - 1271 pàgines |
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... verses : In every thing there naturally grows A balsamum to keep it fresh and new , If ' twere not injur❜d by extrinsique blows ; Your youth and beauty are this balm in you . But you , of learning and religion , And virtue and such ...
... verses : In every thing there naturally grows A balsamum to keep it fresh and new , If ' twere not injur❜d by extrinsique blows ; Your youth and beauty are this balm in you . But you , of learning and religion , And virtue and such ...
Pàgina 38
... verses to Lord Falkland , whom every man of his time was proud to praise , there are , as there must be in all Cowley's compositions , some striking thoughts , but they are not well wrought . His elegy on Sir Henry Wotton is vigorous ...
... verses to Lord Falkland , whom every man of his time was proud to praise , there are , as there must be in all Cowley's compositions , some striking thoughts , but they are not well wrought . His elegy on Sir Henry Wotton is vigorous ...
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... verses to Davenant , which are vigorously be- gun , and happily concluded , contain some hints of criticism very justly conceived , and happily expres- sed . Cowley's critical abilities have not been suffi- ciently observed : the few ...
... verses to Davenant , which are vigorously be- gun , and happily concluded , contain some hints of criticism very justly conceived , and happily expres- sed . Cowley's critical abilities have not been suffi- ciently observed : the few ...
Pàgina 40
... verses for Reason is a passage which Bentley , in the only English verses . which he is known to have written , seems to have copied , though with the inferiority of an imitator . The Holy Book like the eighth sphere doth shine , With ...
... verses for Reason is a passage which Bentley , in the only English verses . which he is known to have written , seems to have copied , though with the inferiority of an imitator . The Holy Book like the eighth sphere doth shine , With ...
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... verses of a lover , no man that has ever loved will much commend them . They are neither courtly nor pathetic , have neither gallantry nor fondness . His praises are too far sought and too hyperbolical , either to express love or to ...
... verses of a lover , no man that has ever loved will much commend them . They are neither courtly nor pathetic , have neither gallantry nor fondness . His praises are too far sought and too hyperbolical , either to express love or to ...
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