Lives of the English Poets, Waller, Milton, CowleyCassell, Limited, 1901 - 192 pagina's |
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Pagina 29
... labour of invention , and the tribute of dependence . Poets , indeed , profess fiction ; but the legitimate end of fiction is the conveyance of truth , and he that has flattery ready for all whom the vicissitudes of the world happen to ...
... labour of invention , and the tribute of dependence . Poets , indeed , profess fiction ; but the legitimate end of fiction is the conveyance of truth , and he that has flattery ready for all whom the vicissitudes of the world happen to ...
Pagina 43
... labour . Of these pretty compositions , neither the beauties nor the faults deserve much attention . The amorous verses have this to recommend them , that they are less hyper- bolical than those of some other poets . Waller is not ...
... labour . Of these pretty compositions , neither the beauties nor the faults deserve much attention . The amorous verses have this to recommend them , that they are less hyper- bolical than those of some other poets . Waller is not ...
Pagina 61
... labour and intense study , which , " says he , " I take to be my portion in this life , joined with a strong propensity of nature , " he might " leave something so written to after - times , as they should not willingly let it die ...
... labour and intense study , which , " says he , " I take to be my portion in this life , joined with a strong propensity of nature , " he might " leave something so written to after - times , as they should not willingly let it die ...
Pagina 65
... digression as pedantic or paradoxical ; for , if I have Milton against me , I have Socrates on my side . It was his labour to turn philosophy Kv 12 from the study of Nature to speculations upon life ; C - 17 dige 65 MILTON . sund 1 ...
... digression as pedantic or paradoxical ; for , if I have Milton against me , I have Socrates on my side . It was his labour to turn philosophy Kv 12 from the study of Nature to speculations upon life ; C - 17 dige 65 MILTON . sund 1 ...
Pagina 68
... labour the agony of his wit having es- caped narrowly , instead of well - sized periods , he greets us with a quantity of thumb - ring posies . - And thus ends this section , or rather dissection , of himself . " Such is the ...
... labour the agony of his wit having es- caped narrowly , instead of well - sized periods , he greets us with a quantity of thumb - ring posies . - And thus ends this section , or rather dissection , of himself . " Such is the ...
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Adam admiration afterwards Aldersgate Street Anacreon angels appears beauties Bishop blank verse booksellers Bunhill Fields called censured Chorus Church Clarendon commission of array Comus conceits confessed considered Cowley Cowley's Cromwell danger daughter Davideis death declared delight diction diligence Donne doth Dryden Earl EDMUND WALLER elegance endeavours English poets epic Epic Poetry Episcopacy excellence fancy favour fear friends genius Heaven honour hope human images imagination imitated Johnson justly king king's known labour Lady language Latin learning lines lived Lord Lord Conway metaphysical poets Milton mind nature never numbers opinion Panegyric Paradise Lost Paradise Regained Parliament perhaps perusal Philips Pindar pleasure poem poetical poetry pounds praise published reader reason regicides relates remarks rhyme Salmasius says seems sent sentiments sometimes Sprat supplied supposed tell thee things thou thought tion told truth verse versification virtue Waller write written