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Pagina 14
... poets ( for poets they were called by themselves and their admirers ) was eminently distinguished . As the authors of this race were ... poetry . Thus Cowley on Knowledge : The sacred tree ' midst the fair orchard grew The 14 COWLEY . DENHAM.
... poets ( for poets they were called by themselves and their admirers ) was eminently distinguished . As the authors of this race were ... poetry . Thus Cowley on Knowledge : The sacred tree ' midst the fair orchard grew The 14 COWLEY . DENHAM.
Pagina 33
... Eng- land , during the civil war , was Albion no more , nor to be named from white . It is surely by some fascination not easily surmounted , that a writer , professing to revive the noblest and highest writing in verse , makes this ...
... Eng- land , during the civil war , was Albion no more , nor to be named from white . It is surely by some fascination not easily surmounted , that a writer , professing to revive the noblest and highest writing in verse , makes this ...
Pagina 34
... poetry ; all the boys and girls caught the pleasing fashion , and they that could do nothing else , could write like Pindar . The rights of antiquity were invaded , and disorder tried to break into the Latin ; a poem on the Sheldonian ...
... poetry ; all the boys and girls caught the pleasing fashion , and they that could do nothing else , could write like Pindar . The rights of antiquity were invaded , and disorder tried to break into the Latin ; a poem on the Sheldonian ...
Pagina 40
... poem . In the perusal of the Davideis , as of all Cowley's works , we find wit and learning unprofitably squandered ... poetry , it will be found that he wrote with abundant fertility , but negligent or unskilful selection ; with much ...
... poem . In the perusal of the Davideis , as of all Cowley's works , we find wit and learning unprofitably squandered ... poetry , it will be found that he wrote with abundant fertility , but negligent or unskilful selection ; with much ...
Pagina 46
... Poems , the Essays which accompany them must not be forgotten . What is said by Sprat of his conversation , that no man could draw from it any suspicion of his excellence in poetry , may be applied to these compositions . No author ever ...
... Poems , the Essays which accompany them must not be forgotten . What is said by Sprat of his conversation , that no man could draw from it any suspicion of his excellence in poetry , may be applied to these compositions . No author ever ...
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Absalom and Achitophel Addison admiration afterwards Almanzor ancient appears beauties better blank verse censure character Charles Dryden compositions considered Cowley criticism death defend delight diction diligence dramatic Dryden Duke Earl elegance English English poetry Euripides excellence fancy favour friends genius Georgics heroic honour Hudibras images imagination imitation Jacob Tonson John Dryden Johnson's Lives Juvenal kind King 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 preface produced published reader reason relates remarks reputation rhyme satire says seems sentiments shew shewn sometimes Sprat style supposed Syphax thee thing thou thought tion told tragedy translation truth verses versification Virgil virtue Waller Westminster Abbey words write written wrote