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Pagina 28
... given rather a pleasing , than a faithful , representation , having retained their spriteliness , but lost their simplicity . The Anacreon of Cowley , like the Homer of Pope , has admitted the decoration of some modern graces , by which ...
... given rather a pleasing , than a faithful , representation , having retained their spriteliness , but lost their simplicity . The Anacreon of Cowley , like the Homer of Pope , has admitted the decoration of some modern graces , by which ...
Pagina 42
... given them . Language is the dress of thought : and as the noblest mien , or most graceful action , would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to the gross employments of rustics or mechanics ; so the most heroic sentiments ...
... given them . Language is the dress of thought : and as the noblest mien , or most graceful action , would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to the gross employments of rustics or mechanics ; so the most heroic sentiments ...
Pagina 43
... given not the same numbers , but the same diction , to the gentle Anacreon and the tem- pestuous Pindar . His versification seems to have had very little of his care ; and if what he thinks be true , that his numbers are unmusical only ...
... given not the same numbers , but the same diction , to the gentle Anacreon and the tem- pestuous Pindar . His versification seems to have had very little of his care ; and if what he thinks be true , that his numbers are unmusical only ...
Pagina 45
... syllables . But , not to defraud him of his due praise , he has given one example of representative versification , which perhaps no other English line can equal : Begin , be bold , and venture to be wise COWLEY . 45.
... syllables . But , not to defraud him of his due praise , he has given one example of representative versification , which perhaps no other English line can equal : Begin , be bold , and venture to be wise COWLEY . 45.
Pagina 48
... given more to dice and cards than study : " and therefore gave no prognostics of his future eminence ; nor was suspected to conceal , under sluggishness and laxity , a genius born to improve the literature of his country . When he was ...
... given more to dice and cards than study : " and therefore gave no prognostics of his future eminence ; nor was suspected to conceal , under sluggishness and laxity , a genius born to improve the literature of his country . When he was ...
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