The lives of the English poetsRivington, 1858 - 414 pagina's |
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Pagina 13
... supply by hyperbole ; their amplification had no limits ; they left not only reason but fancy behind them ; and produced combinations of confused magnificence , that not only could not be credited , but could not be imagined . Yet great ...
... supply by hyperbole ; their amplification had no limits ; they left not only reason but fancy behind them ; and produced combinations of confused magnificence , that not only could not be credited , but could not be imagined . Yet great ...
Pagina 23
... 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.
... 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 27
... supply , were at that time accessions to English literature , and shew such skill as raises our wish for more examples . The lines from Jersey are a very curious and pleasing specimen of the familiar descending to the burlesque . but ...
... supply , were at that time accessions to English literature , and shew such skill as raises our wish for more examples . The lines from Jersey are a very curious and pleasing specimen of the familiar descending to the burlesque . but ...
Pagina 34
... supply its place . The Pindaric Odes have so long enjoyed the highest degree of poetical reputation , that I am not willing to dismiss them with unabated censure ; and surely , though the mode of their composition be erroneous , yet ...
... supply its place . The Pindaric Odes have so long enjoyed the highest degree of poetical reputation , that I am not willing to dismiss them with unabated censure ; and surely , though the mode of their composition be erroneous , yet ...
Pagina 37
... supplies . One of the great sources of poetical delight is description , or the power of presenting pictures to the mind . Cowley gives inferences instead of images , and shews not what may be supposed to have been seen , but what ...
... supplies . One of the great sources of poetical delight is description , or the power of presenting pictures to the mind . Cowley gives inferences instead of images , and shews not what may be supposed to have been seen , but what ...
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