The Lives of the English PoetsJones and Company, 1848 - 365 pagina's |
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Pagina 6
... poets who have written with narrow views , and , instead of tracing in- tellectual pleasures in the minds of men , paid their court to temporary prejudices , has been at one time too much praised , and too much ne- glected at another ...
... poets who have written with narrow views , and , instead of tracing in- tellectual pleasures in the minds of men , paid their court to temporary prejudices , has been at one time too much praised , and too much ne- glected at another ...
Pagina 12
... poems , he has forgot- ten or neglected to name his heroes . I In his poem on the death of Hervey , there is much praise , but little passion ; a very just and ample delineation of such virtues as a studious privacy admits , and such ...
... poems , he has forgot- ten or neglected to name his heroes . I In his poem on the death of Hervey , there is much praise , but little passion ; a very just and ample delineation of such virtues as a studious privacy admits , and such ...
Pagina 20
... poem , that else will pass for very careless verses : as before , Zique T neither have our English poets observed it , for aught I can find . The Latins ( qui Musas colunt severiores ) sometimes did it ; and their prince , Virgil ...
... poem , that else will pass for very careless verses : as before , Zique T neither have our English poets observed it , for aught I can find . The Latins ( qui Musas colunt severiores ) sometimes did it ; and their prince , Virgil ...
Pagina 22
... Poets are sultans , if they had their will ; And Pope , bu After the restoration , he wrote the poem on Prudence and Justice , and perhaps some of his other pieces and , as he appears , whenever any terious question comes before him ...
... Poets are sultans , if they had their will ; And Pope , bu After the restoration , he wrote the poem on Prudence and Justice , and perhaps some of his other pieces and , as he appears , whenever any terious question comes before him ...
Pagina 23
... poem on the death of Cowley was his last , and , among his shorter works , his best perform- Longrit ein bis vile practice obscured the and deformed parts of the by a perusal of our most be some the ancient authors , ance : the numbers ...
... poem on the death of Cowley was his last , and , among his shorter works , his best perform- Longrit ein bis vile practice obscured the and deformed parts of the by a perusal of our most be some the ancient authors , ance : the numbers ...
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