Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Gateway Editions, 1955 - 400 pagina's |
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Pagina 24
... easy to suppose how much he must miss the companion of his labours , and the partner of his discoveries ; but what ... easily supplies . Nothing can less display knowledge , or less exercise invention , than to tell how a shepherd has ...
... easy to suppose how much he must miss the companion of his labours , and the partner of his discoveries ; but what ... easily supplies . Nothing can less display knowledge , or less exercise invention , than to tell how a shepherd has ...
Pagina 393
... Easy poetry is universally admired ; but I know not whether any rule has yet been fixed , by which it may be decided when poetry can be properly called easy . Horace has told us , that it is such as " every reader hopes to equal , but ...
... Easy poetry is universally admired ; but I know not whether any rule has yet been fixed , by which it may be decided when poetry can be properly called easy . Horace has told us , that it is such as " every reader hopes to equal , but ...
Pagina 394
... easily be pardoned , but they always produce some degree of obscurity and ruggedness . Easy poetry has been so long excluded by am- bition of ornament , and luxuriance of imagery , that its nature seems now to be forgotten . Affectation ...
... easily be pardoned , but they always produce some degree of obscurity and ruggedness . Easy poetry has been so long excluded by am- bition of ornament , and luxuriance of imagery , that its nature seems now to be forgotten . Affectation ...
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From The Life of Abraham Cowley | 1 |
From The Life of John Milton 16081674 | 21 |
From The Life of John Dryden 16311700 | 43 |
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