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Pagina 22
... write the poesy there , For it wanteth one as yet , Then the sun pass through't twice a year , The sun , which is esteem'd the god of wit . COWLEY . The difficulties which have been raised about identity in philosophy , are by Cowley ...
... write the poesy there , For it wanteth one as yet , Then the sun pass through't twice a year , The sun , which is esteem'd the god of wit . COWLEY . The difficulties which have been raised about identity in philosophy , are by Cowley ...
Pagina 39
... write to be ad- mired . The Anacreontics therefore of Cowley give now all the pleasure which they ever gave . If he was formed by nature for one kind of writing more than for another , his power seems to have been greatest in the ...
... write to be ad- mired . The Anacreontics therefore of Cowley give now all the pleasure which they ever gave . If he was formed by nature for one kind of writing more than for another , his power seems to have been greatest in the ...
Pagina 41
... write as Pindar would not have written . Of the Olympic Ode , the beginning is , I think , above the original in elegance , and the conclusion below it in strength . The connexion is supplied with great perspicuity ; and thoughts ...
... write as Pindar would not have written . Of the Olympic Ode , the beginning is , I think , above the original in elegance , and the conclusion below it in strength . The connexion is supplied with great perspicuity ; and thoughts ...
Pagina 44
... writer who has many of the beauties and faults of Cow- ley : Omnibus Mundi Dominator horis Aptat urgendas per inane pennas , Pars adhuc nido latet , et futuros Crescit in annos . Cowley , whatever was his subject , seems to have been ...
... writer who has many of the beauties and faults of Cow- ley : Omnibus Mundi Dominator horis Aptat urgendas per inane pennas , Pars adhuc nido latet , et futuros Crescit in annos . Cowley , whatever was his subject , seems to have been ...
Pagina 45
... writer , professing to re- vive the noblest and highest writing in verse , makes this address to the new year : Nay , if thou lov'st me , gentle year , Let not so much as love be there , Vain , fruitless love I mean ; for , gentle year ...
... writer , professing to re- vive the noblest and highest writing in verse , makes this address to the new year : Nay , if thou lov'st me , gentle year , Let not so much as love be there , Vain , fruitless love I mean ; for , gentle year ...
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Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 Samuel Johnson,George Birkbeck Norman Hill Fragmentweergave - 1968 |
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