The Lives of the English PoetsJones and Company, 1848 - 365 pagina's |
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Pagina 4
... fault , wrote a Song of Triumph . But this was a time of such general hope , that By May's poem we are here to understand a continuation of Lucan's Pharsalia to the death of Julius Cæsar , by Thomas May , an eminent poet and historian ...
... fault , wrote a Song of Triumph . But this was a time of such general hope , that By May's poem we are here to understand a continuation of Lucan's Pharsalia to the death of Julius Cæsar , by Thomas May , an eminent poet and historian ...
Pagina 13
... faults , and nearly of flowers , is not perused with more sluggish in the same proportion . They are written with frigidity . The compositions are such as might exuberance of wit , and with copiousness of have been written for penance ...
... faults , and nearly of flowers , is not perused with more sluggish in the same proportion . They are written with frigidity . The compositions are such as might exuberance of wit , and with copiousness of have been written for penance ...
Pagina 14
... fault of Cowley , and perhaps of all the writers of the metaphysical race , is that of pur- suing his thoughts to the last ramifications , by which he loses the grandeur of generality ; for of the greatest things the parts are little ...
... fault of Cowley , and perhaps of all the writers of the metaphysical race , is that of pur- suing his thoughts to the last ramifications , by which he loses the grandeur of generality ; for of the greatest things the parts are little ...
Pagina 15
... faults of Cowley . Omnibus Mundi Dominator horis Aptat urgendas per inane pennas , Pars adhuc nido latet , et futuros Crescit in annos . Cowley , whatever was his subject , seems to have been carried , by a kind of destiny , to the ...
... faults of Cowley . Omnibus Mundi Dominator horis Aptat urgendas per inane pennas , Pars adhuc nido latet , et futuros Crescit in annos . Cowley , whatever was his subject , seems to have been carried , by a kind of destiny , to the ...
Pagina 23
... fault by so nice a of a good translator : I bor yatbostenybare line of limitation ; the different parts of the sen ... faults . The digressions are too long , the morality too fre- quent , and the sentiments sometimes such as will not ...
... fault by so nice a of a good translator : I bor yatbostenybare line of limitation ; the different parts of the sen ... faults . The digressions are too long , the morality too fre- quent , and the sentiments sometimes such as will not ...
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