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Pagina 11
... criticism on the works of Cowley , it is not improper to give some ac- count . The metaphysical poets were men of learning , and to shew their learning was their whole endeavour : but , unluckily re- solving to shew it in rhyme ...
... criticism on the works of Cowley , it is not improper to give some ac- count . The metaphysical poets were men of learning , and to shew their learning was their whole endeavour : but , unluckily re- solving to shew it in rhyme ...
Pagina 25
... criticism . I know not whether Scaliger himself has persuaded many readers to join with him in his preference of the two favourite odes , which he estimates in his raptures at the value of a kingdom . I will , however , venture to ...
... criticism . I know not whether Scaliger himself has persuaded many readers to join with him in his preference of the two favourite odes , which he estimates in his raptures at the value of a kingdom . I will , however , venture to ...
Pagina 27
... critic , mingle their influence even in this airy frolic of genius . To such a performance , Suckling could have brought ... criticism very justly conceived and happily expressed . Cowley's critical abilities have not been sufficiently ...
... critic , mingle their influence even in this airy frolic of genius . To such a performance , Suckling could have brought ... criticism very justly conceived and happily expressed . Cowley's critical abilities have not been sufficiently ...
Pagina 33
... critics , say , How poor to this was Pindur's style ! Even those who cannot perhaps find in the Isthmian or Nemean songs what antiquity has disposed them to expect , Johnson's Lives . I. 3 will at least see that they are ill ...
... critics , say , How poor to this was Pindur's style ! Even those who cannot perhaps find in the Isthmian or Nemean songs what antiquity has disposed them to expect , Johnson's Lives . I. 3 will at least see that they are ill ...
Pagina 34
... critic , or to conceive how that can be the highest kind of writing in verse , which , according to Sprat , is chiefly to be preferred for its near affinity to prose . This lax and lawless versification so much concealed the ...
... critic , or to conceive how that can be the highest kind of writing in verse , which , according to Sprat , is chiefly to be preferred for its near affinity to prose . This lax and lawless versification so much concealed the ...
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