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... Latin , but without due attention to the ancient models : for it is not loose verse , but mere prose . It was printed with a dedication in verse to Dr. Comber , master of the college , but having neither the facility of a popular nor ...
... Latin , but without due attention to the ancient models : for it is not loose verse , but mere prose . It was printed with a dedication in verse to Dr. Comber , master of the college , but having neither the facility of a popular nor ...
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... Latin several books on plants , of which the first and second display the qualities of herbs , in elegiac verse ; the third and fourth the beauties of flowers in various measures ; and in the fifth and sixth , the uses of trees in ...
... Latin several books on plants , of which the first and second display the qualities of herbs , in elegiac verse ; the third and fourth the beauties of flowers in various measures ; and in the fifth and sixth , the uses of trees in ...
Pagina 13
Samuel Johnson George Birkbeck Norman Hill. If the Latin performances of Cowley and Milton be com- 34 pared , for May I hold to be superior to both , the advantage seems to lie on the side of Cowley . Milton is generally content to ...
Samuel Johnson George Birkbeck Norman Hill. If the Latin performances of Cowley and Milton be com- 34 pared , for May I hold to be superior to both , the advantage seems to lie on the side of Cowley . Milton is generally content to ...
Pagina 18
... Latin verse John- son writes : - ' It is always with in- dignation or contempt that I read it . ... I condemn them [ the expressions in it ] as uninstructive and unaffect- ing , as too ludicrous for reverence and grief , for ...
... Latin verse John- son writes : - ' It is always with in- dignation or contempt that I read it . ... I condemn them [ the expressions in it ] as uninstructive and unaffect- ing , as too ludicrous for reverence and grief , for ...
Pagina 46
... 116 , 126 , 127 ) , described him ( ib . p . 35 ) as ' that noblest Latin poet of modern ages . ' 2 Odes , i . 4 . 3 Eng . Poets , viii . 173 . Ib . viii . 143 . 5 Ib . viii . III . For , though I have too much cause to doubt 46 COWLEY.
... 116 , 126 , 127 ) , described him ( ib . p . 35 ) as ' that noblest Latin poet of modern ages . ' 2 Odes , i . 4 . 3 Eng . Poets , viii . 173 . Ib . viii . 143 . 5 Ib . viii . III . For , though I have too much cause to doubt 46 COWLEY.
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