The lives of the English poetsRivington, 1858 - 414 pagina's |
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Pagina 11
... remarks and memorials which I have been able to add to the narrative of Dr. Sprat ; who , writing when the feuds of the civil war were yet recent , and the minds of either party were easily irritated , was obliged to pass over many ...
... remarks and memorials which I have been able to add to the narrative of Dr. Sprat ; who , writing when the feuds of the civil war were yet recent , and the minds of either party were easily irritated , was obliged to pass over many ...
Pagina 13
... remarks on the actions of men , and the vicissitudes of life , without interest and without emotion . Their courtship was void of fondness , and their lamentation of sorrow . Their wish was only to say what they hoped had never been ...
... remarks on the actions of men , and the vicissitudes of life , without interest and without emotion . Their courtship was void of fondness , and their lamentation of sorrow . Their wish was only to say what they hoped had never been ...
Pagina 14
... REMARKS are not easily understood without examples ; and I have therefore collected instances of the modes of writing by which this species of poets ( for poets they were called by themselves and their admirers ) was eminently ...
... REMARKS are not easily understood without examples ; and I have therefore collected instances of the modes of writing by which this species of poets ( for poets they were called by themselves and their admirers ) was eminently ...
Pagina 23
... drew their illustrations were true ; it was enough that they were popular . Bacon remarks , that some falsehoods are continued by tradition , because they supply commodious allusions . It gave a piteous groan , and so it broke COWLEY . 23.
... drew their illustrations were true ; it was enough that they were popular . Bacon remarks , that some falsehoods are continued by tradition , because they supply commodious allusions . It gave a piteous groan , and so it broke COWLEY . 23.
Pagina 42
... remarks , were then in the highest esteem . It is related by Clarendon that Cowley always acknow- ledges his obligation to the learning and industry of Jonson ; but I have found no traces of Jonson in his works : to emulate Donne ...
... remarks , were then in the highest esteem . It is related by Clarendon that Cowley always acknow- ledges his obligation to the learning and industry of Jonson ; but I have found no traces of Jonson in his works : to emulate Donne ...
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