Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1967 |
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Pagina 224
... poetry by the perusal of Ogylby's Homer , and Sandys's Ovid : Ogylby's assistance he never repaid with any praise ; but of Sandys he declared , in his notes to the Iliad , that English poetry owed much of its present beauty to his ...
... poetry by the perusal of Ogylby's Homer , and Sandys's Ovid : Ogylby's assistance he never repaid with any praise ; but of Sandys he declared , in his notes to the Iliad , that English poetry owed much of its present beauty to his ...
Pagina 313
... English poetry can shew . A simile , to be perfect , must both illustrate and ennoble the subject ; must shew it to the understanding in a clearer view , and display it to the fancy with greater dignity ; but either of these qualities ...
... English poetry can shew . A simile , to be perfect , must both illustrate and ennoble the subject ; must shew it to the understanding in a clearer view , and display it to the fancy with greater dignity ; but either of these qualities ...
Pagina 389
... English poetry ; and in 1737 published a small Miscellany , without his name . He then for a time wandered about , to acquaint him- self with life ; and was sometimes at London , sometimes at Bath , or any other place of publick resort ...
... English poetry ; and in 1737 published a small Miscellany , without his name . He then for a time wandered about , to acquaint him- self with life ; and was sometimes at London , sometimes at Bath , or any other place of publick resort ...
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