Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1906 - 493 pagina's |
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Pagina 121
... poem , of the same length , from which so little can be taken without apparent mutilation . Here are no funeral ... poem be strictly one , whether the poem can be properly termed heroick , and who is the hero , are raised by such readers ...
... poem , of the same length , from which so little can be taken without apparent mutilation . Here are no funeral ... poem be strictly one , whether the poem can be properly termed heroick , and who is the hero , are raised by such readers ...
Pagina 152
... poem ; though sometimes , in a subordinate sense , the negative nothing is injudiciously mingled . Passerat confounds the two senses . Another of his most vigorous pieces is his Lampoon on Sir Car Scroop , who , in a poem called The ...
... poem ; though sometimes , in a subordinate sense , the negative nothing is injudiciously mingled . Passerat confounds the two senses . Another of his most vigorous pieces is his Lampoon on Sir Car Scroop , who , in a poem called The ...
Pagina 224
... poem on Cider , written in imitation of the Georgicks , may be given this peculiar praise , that it is grounded in truth ; that the precepts which it contain are exact and just ; and that it is therefore , at once , a book of ...
... poem on Cider , written in imitation of the Georgicks , may be given this peculiar praise , that it is grounded in truth ; that the precepts which it contain are exact and just ; and that it is therefore , at once , a book of ...
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