Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1906 - 493 pagina's |
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Pagina 34
... Pindar spoke , but his manner of speaking . He was therefore not at all restrained to his expressions , nor much to his sentiments ; nothing was required of him , but not to write as Pindar would not have written . Of the Olympick Ode ...
... Pindar spoke , but his manner of speaking . He was therefore not at all restrained to his expressions , nor much to his sentiments ; nothing was required of him , but not to write as Pindar would not have written . Of the Olympick Ode ...
Pagina 35
... Pindar . In the following odes , where Cowley chooses his own subjects , he sometimes rises to dignity truly Pindarick , and , if some deficiencies of language be forgiven , his strains are such as those of the Theban bard were to his ...
... Pindar . In the following odes , where Cowley chooses his own subjects , he sometimes rises to dignity truly Pindarick , and , if some deficiencies of language be forgiven , his strains are such as those of the Theban bard were to his ...
Pagina 431
... Pindar , that he pours his violence and rapidity of verse , as a river swoln with rain rushes from the moun- tain ; or of himself , that his genius wanders in quest of poetical decorations , as the bee wanders to collect honey ; he , in ...
... Pindar , that he pours his violence and rapidity of verse , as a river swoln with rain rushes from the moun- tain ; or of himself , that his genius wanders in quest of poetical decorations , as the bee wanders to collect honey ; he , in ...
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