The Lives of the English PoetsBernhard Tauchnitz, 1858 - 414 pagina's |
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Pagina 29
... praise or censure . They have all the same beauties and faults , and nearly in the same proportion . They are ... praises are too far sought , and too hyper- bolical , either to express love or to excite it ; every stanza is crowded with ...
... praise or censure . They have all the same beauties and faults , and nearly in the same proportion . They are ... praises are too far sought , and too hyper- bolical , either to express love or to excite it ; every stanza is crowded with ...
Pagina 35
... praise ; of which it may be said with truth , that no man but Cowley could have written them . The Davideis now remains to be considered ; a poem which the author designed to have extended to twelve books , merely , as he makes no ...
... praise ; of which it may be said with truth , that no man but Cowley could have written them . The Davideis now remains to be considered ; a poem which the author designed to have extended to twelve books , merely , as he makes no ...
Pagina 39
... praise . He gives Saul both the body and mind of a hero : His way once chose , he forward thrust outright , Nor turn'd aside for danger or delight . And the different beauties of the lofty Merah and the gentle Michol are very justly ...
... praise . He gives Saul both the body and mind of a hero : His way once chose , he forward thrust outright , Nor turn'd aside for danger or delight . And the different beauties of the lofty Merah and the gentle Michol are very justly ...
Pagina 41
... praise ; and , not sufficiently inquiring by what means the ancients have continued to delight through all the changes of human manners , he contented himself with a deciduous laurel , of which the verdure in its spring was bright and ...
... praise ; and , not sufficiently inquiring by what means the ancients have continued to delight through all the changes of human manners , he contented himself with a deciduous laurel , of which the verdure in its spring was bright and ...
Pagina 44
... praise by inelegance of language : Where honour or where conscience does not bind , No other law shall shackle me ; Slave to myself I ne'er will be ; Nor shall my future actions be confin'd By my own present mind . Who by resolves and ...
... praise by inelegance of language : Where honour or where conscience does not bind , No other law shall shackle me ; Slave to myself I ne'er will be ; Nor shall my future actions be confin'd By my own present mind . Who by resolves and ...
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