The lives of the English poets: in 2 vol, Volume 1Tauchnitz, 1858 - 402 pagina's |
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... known , but all is shewn confused and enlarged through the mist of panegyric . ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in the year one thousand six hundred and eighteen . His father was a grocer , whose con- dition Dr. Sprat conceals under the general ...
... known , but all is shewn confused and enlarged through the mist of panegyric . ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in the year one thousand six hundred and eighteen . His father was a grocer , whose con- dition Dr. Sprat conceals under the general ...
Pagina 5
... known that the business of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetoric . One passage , however , seems not unworthy of some notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agitation : " The Scotch treaty , ' says he , " is ...
... known that the business of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetoric . One passage , however , seems not unworthy of some notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agitation : " The Scotch treaty , ' says he , " is ...
Pagina 8
... known . He that misses his end will never be as much pleased as he that attains it , even when he can impute no part of his failure to himself ; and , when the end is to please the multitude , no man , perhaps , has a right , in things ...
... known . He that misses his end will never be as much pleased as he that attains it , even when he can impute no part of his failure to himself ; and , when the end is to please the multitude , no man , perhaps , has a right , in things ...
Pagina 11
... known ; I must therefore recommend the perusal of his work , to which my narration can be considered only as a slender supplement . Cowley , like other poets who have written with narrow views , and , instead of tracing intellectual ...
... known ; I must therefore recommend the perusal of his work , to which my narration can be considered only as a slender supplement . Cowley , like other poets who have written with narrow views , and , instead of tracing intellectual ...
Pagina 17
... known , The soil's all barren sand , or rocky stone . COWLEY . A Lover , burnt up by his affection , is compared to Egypt : The fate of Egypt I sustain , And never feel the dew of rain From clouds which in the head appear ; But all my ...
... known , The soil's all barren sand , or rocky stone . COWLEY . A Lover , burnt up by his affection , is compared to Egypt : The fate of Egypt I sustain , And never feel the dew of rain From clouds which in the head appear ; But all my ...
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Absalom and Achitophel Addison admiration afterwards Almanzor ancients appears beauties better blank verse censure character Charles Dryden compositions considered Cowley criticism death delight diction diligence dramatic Dryden Duke Earl elegance English English poetry Euripides excellence fancy favour friends genius Georgics heroic honour Hudibras images imagination imitation Jacob Tonson John Dryden Johnson's Lives Juvenal kind King knew known labour Lady language Latin learning lines Lord Lord Conway Milton mind nature never NIHIL numbers opinion Paradise Lost parliament passions perhaps perusal Philips Pindar play pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope pounds praise produced published reader reason relates remarks reputation rhyme satire says seems sentiments shew shewn sometimes Sprat supposed Syphax thee thing thou thought tion told tragedy translation truth verses versification Virgil virtue Waller Westminster Abbey words write written wrote