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Pagina 17
Thus Donne shews his medicinal knowledge in some encomiastick verses : In
every thing there naturally grows A ... my thanks I have forgot, Nor trust I this with
hopes; and yet scarce true This bravery is, since these times shew'd me you.
Thus Donne shews his medicinal knowledge in some encomiastick verses : In
every thing there naturally grows A ... my thanks I have forgot, Nor trust I this with
hopes; and yet scarce true This bravery is, since these times shew'd me you.
Pagina 298
His heroick stanzas have beauties and defects; the thoughts are vigorous, and
though not always proper, shew a mind replete with ideas; the numbers are
smooth, and the diction, if not altogether correct, is elegant and easy. Davenant
was ...
His heroick stanzas have beauties and defects; the thoughts are vigorous, and
though not always proper, shew a mind replete with ideas; the numbers are
smooth, and the diction, if not altogether correct, is elegant and easy. Davenant
was ...
Pagina 452
opera called Calypso and Telemachus, intended to shew that the English
language might be very happily adapted to musick. This was impudently
opposed by those who were employed in the Italian opera; and, what cannot be
told without ...
opera called Calypso and Telemachus, intended to shew that the English
language might be very happily adapted to musick. This was impudently
opposed by those who were employed in the Italian opera; and, what cannot be
told without ...
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