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Pagina 9
... Cowley . Milton is generally content to express the thoughts of the ancients in their language ; Cowley , without much loss of purity or elegance , accommodates the diction of Rome to his own conceptions . At the Restoration , after all ...
... Cowley . Milton is generally content to express the thoughts of the ancients in their language ; Cowley , without much loss of purity or elegance , accommodates the diction of Rome to his own conceptions . At the Restoration , after all ...
Pagina 29
... Cowley's first piece , which ought to be inscribed To my muse , for want of which the second couplet is without reference . When the title is added , there will still remain a defect ; for every piece ought to contain in itself whatever ...
... Cowley's first piece , which ought to be inscribed To my muse , for want of which the second couplet is without reference . When the title is added , there will still remain a defect ; for every piece ought to contain in itself whatever ...
Pagina 45
... Cowley certainly errs , by introducing pedantry far more frequently than Tasso . I know not , indeed , why they should be compared ; for the resem- blance of Cowley's work to Tasso's is only that they ... Cowley's poetry it will be COWLEY 45.
... Cowley certainly errs , by introducing pedantry far more frequently than Tasso . I know not , indeed , why they should be compared ; for the resem- blance of Cowley's work to Tasso's is only that they ... Cowley's poetry it will be COWLEY 45.
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