The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1858 |
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... writes with so little detail , that scarcely any thing is distinctly known , but all is shewn confused and enlarged through the mist of panegyric . ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in the year one thousand six hundred and eighteen . His father ...
... writes with so little detail , that scarcely any thing is distinctly known , but all is shewn confused and enlarged through the mist of panegyric . ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in the year one thousand six hundred and eighteen . His father ...
Pagina 4
... write for what Cowley might have learned from his master Pindar to call " the dream of a shadow . ' It is surely not difficult , in the solitude of a college , or in the bustle of the world , to find useful studies and serious ...
... write for what Cowley might have learned from his master Pindar to call " the dream of a shadow . ' It is surely not difficult , in the solitude of a college , or in the bustle of the world , to find useful studies and serious ...
Pagina 10
... conveniently come hither the way of Hampton Town , lying there one night . I write this in pain , and can say no more : Verbum sapienti . " L'Allegro of Milton . even He did not long enjoy the pleasure , or suffer 10 COWLEY .
... conveniently come hither the way of Hampton Town , lying there one night . I write this in pain , and can say no more : Verbum sapienti . " L'Allegro of Milton . even He did not long enjoy the pleasure , or suffer 10 COWLEY .
Pagina 11
... writing when the feuds of the civil war were yet recent , and the minds of either party were easily irritated , was obliged to pass over many transactions in general expressions , and to leave curi- osity often unsatisfied . What he did ...
... writing when the feuds of the civil war were yet recent , and the minds of either party were easily irritated , was obliged to pass over many transactions in general expressions , and to leave curi- osity often unsatisfied . What he did ...
Pagina 13
... write on their plan it was at least ne- cessary to read and think . No man could be born a metaphy- sical poet nor assume the dignity of a writer , by descriptions copied from descriptions , by imitations borrowed from imita- tions , by ...
... write on their plan it was at least ne- cessary to read and think . No man could be born a metaphy- sical poet nor assume the dignity of a writer , by descriptions copied from descriptions , by imitations borrowed from imita- tions , by ...
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Absalom and Achitophel Addison admiration afterwards ancients appears beauties better blank verse censure character Charles Dryden compositions confessed considered Cowley criticism death delight diction diligence dramatic Dryden Duke Earl elegance English English poetry Euripides excellence fancy faults favour friends genius Georgics heroic honour Hudibras images imagination imitation Jacob Tonson John Dryden Johnson's Lives judgment Juvenal kind King knew known labour Lady language Latin learning lines Lord Lord Conway Milton mind nature never NIHIL numbers opinion Paradise Lost parliament passions perhaps Philips Pindar play pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope pounds praise produced published reader reason relates remarks reputation rhyme satire says seems sentiments shew shewn sometimes supposed Syphax thing thou thought tion told tragedy translation verses versification Virgil virtue Waller Westminster Abbey words write written wrote