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Pagina 27
... learning behind it ; the moralist , the politician , and the critic , mingle their influence even in this airy frolic of genius . To such a performance , Suckling could have brought the gaiety , but not the knowledge : Dryden could have ...
... learning behind it ; the moralist , the politician , and the critic , mingle their influence even in this airy frolic of genius . To such a performance , Suckling could have brought the gaiety , but not the knowledge : Dryden could have ...
Pagina 29
... learning : and it is truly asserted by Sprat , that the plenitude of the writer's knowledge flows in upon his page , so that the reader is commonly surprised into some improvement . But , considered as the verses of a lover , no man ...
... learning : and it is truly asserted by Sprat , that the plenitude of the writer's knowledge flows in upon his page , so that the reader is commonly surprised into some improvement . But , considered as the verses of a lover , no man ...
Pagina 31
... learning and wit , when he was dealing out such minute mo- rality in such feeble diction , could imagine , either waking or dreaming , that he imitated Pindar . In the following odes , where Cowley chooses his own sub- jects , he ...
... learning and wit , when he was dealing out such minute mo- rality in such feeble diction , could imagine , either waking or dreaming , that he imitated Pindar . In the following odes , where Cowley chooses his own sub- jects , he ...
Pagina 39
... Learning ( young virgin ) but few suitors knew ; The common prostitute she lately grew , And with the spurious brood loads now the press ; Laborious effects of idleness . As the Davideis affords only four books , though intended to ...
... Learning ( young virgin ) but few suitors knew ; The common prostitute she lately grew , And with the spurious brood loads now the press ; Laborious effects of idleness . As the Davideis affords only four books , though intended to ...
Pagina 40
... learning unprofitably squandered . Attention has no relief ; the affections are never moved ; we are sometimes surprised , but never delighted , and find much to admire , but little to approve . Still however it is the work of Cowley ...
... learning unprofitably squandered . Attention has no relief ; the affections are never moved ; we are sometimes surprised , but never delighted , and find much to admire , but little to approve . Still however it is the work of Cowley ...
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