The lives of the English poets: in 2 vol, Volume 1Tauchnitz, 1858 - 402 pagina's |
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Pagina 7
... beauties of flowers in various measures ; and the fifth and sixth , the uses of trees , in heroic numbers . At the same time were produced , from the same university , the two great poets , Cowley and Milton , of dissimilar genius , of ...
... beauties of flowers in various measures ; and the fifth and sixth , the uses of trees , in heroic numbers . At the same time were produced , from the same university , the two great poets , Cowley and Milton , of dissimilar genius , of ...
Pagina 28
... beauties which common authors may justly think not only above their attainment , but above their ambition . To the Miscellanies succeed the Anacreontics , or para- phrastical translations of some little poems , which pass , however ...
... beauties which common authors may justly think not only above their attainment , but above their ambition . To the Miscellanies succeed the Anacreontics , or para- phrastical translations of some little poems , which pass , however ...
Pagina 29
... beauties and faults , and nearly in the same proportion . They are written with exube- rance of wit , and with copiousness of learning : and it is truly asserted by Sprat , that the plenitude of the writer's knowledge flows in upon his ...
... beauties and faults , and nearly in the same proportion . They are written with exube- rance of wit , and with copiousness of learning : and it is truly asserted by Sprat , that the plenitude of the writer's knowledge flows in upon his ...
Pagina 33
... beauties and faults of Cowley : Omnibus Mundi Dominator horis Aptat urgendas per inane pennas , Pars adhuc nido latet , et futuros Crescit in annos . Cowley , whatever was his subject , seems to have been carried , by a kind of destiny ...
... beauties and faults of Cowley : Omnibus Mundi Dominator horis Aptat urgendas per inane pennas , Pars adhuc nido latet , et futuros Crescit in annos . Cowley , whatever was his subject , seems to have been carried , by a kind of destiny ...
Pagina 39
... beauties of the lofty Merah and the gentle Michol are very justly conceived and strongly painted . Rymer has declared the Davideis superior to the Jerusalem of Tasso , " which , " says he , " the poet , with all his care , has not ...
... beauties of the lofty Merah and the gentle Michol are very justly conceived and strongly painted . Rymer has declared the Davideis superior to the Jerusalem of Tasso , " which , " says he , " the poet , with all his care , has not ...
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