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In the year 1647 , his “ Mistress ” was published ; for he imagined , as he
declared in his preface to a subsequent edition , that “ poets are scarcely thought
freemen of their company without paying some duties , or obliging themselves to
be true ...
In the year 1647 , his “ Mistress ” was published ; for he imagined , as he
declared in his preface to a subsequent edition , that “ poets are scarcely thought
freemen of their company without paying some duties , or obliging themselves to
be true ...
Pagina 7
Considering botany as necessary to a physician , he retired into Kent to gather
plants ; and as the predominance of a favourite study affects all subordinate
operations of the intellect , botany in the mind of Cowley turned into poetry .
Considering botany as necessary to a physician , he retired into Kent to gather
plants ; and as the predominance of a favourite study affects all subordinate
operations of the intellect , botany in the mind of Cowley turned into poetry .
Pagina 11
What he did not tell , cannot however now be 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 ...
What he did not tell , cannot however now be 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 ...
Pagina 12
Those however who deny them to be poets , allow them to be wits . Dryden
confesses of himself and his contemporaries , that they fall below Donne in wit ;
but maintains , that they surpass him in poetry . If wit be well described by Pope ,
as ...
Those however who deny them to be poets , allow them to be wits . Dryden
confesses of himself and his contemporaries , that they fall below Donne in wit ;
but maintains , that they surpass him in poetry . If wit be well described by Pope ,
as ...
Pagina 14
CRITICAL REMARKS are not easily understood without examples ; and I have
therefore collected instances of the modes of writing by which this species of
poets ( for poets they were called by themselves and their admirers ) was
eminently ...
CRITICAL REMARKS are not easily understood without examples ; and I have
therefore collected instances of the modes of writing by which this species of
poets ( for poets they were called by themselves and their admirers ) was
eminently ...
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Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | The Lives of the English Poets: In Two Volumes, Volume 1 Volumes 418-419 van Collection of British authors Volumes 418-419 van Tauchnitz edition. Collection of British authors The Lives of the English Poets: In Two Volumes, Johnson Volume 1 van The lives of the english poets, Samuel Johnson |
| Auteur | Johnson |
| Uitgever | Tauchnitz, 1858 |
| Oorspronkelijk uit | Universiteit Gent |
| Gedigitaliseerd | 16 juni 2008 |
| Lengte | 4 pagina's |
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