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... Cowley turned into poetry . He composed in Latin several books on Plants , of which the first and second display the qualities of Herbs , in elegiac verse ; the third and fourth , the beauties of Flowers in various measures ; and in the ...
... Cowley turned into poetry . He composed in Latin several books on Plants , of which the first and second display the qualities of Herbs , in elegiac verse ; the third and fourth , the beauties of Flowers in various measures ; and in the ...
Page 97
... Cowley , Cleiveland , and Milton . Den- ham and Waller sought another way to fame , by improving the harmony of our numbers . Milton tried the metaphysick style only in his lines upon Hobson the Carrier . Cowley adopted it , and ...
... Cowley , Cleiveland , and Milton . Den- ham and Waller sought another way to fame , by improving the harmony of our numbers . Milton tried the metaphysick style only in his lines upon Hobson the Carrier . Cowley adopted it , and ...
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... Cowley's work to Tasso's is only that they both exhibit the agency of celestial and infernal spirits , in which however they differ widely ; for Cowley supposes them commonly to operate upon the mind by suggestion ; Tasso represents ...
... Cowley's work to Tasso's is only that they both exhibit the agency of celestial and infernal spirits , in which however they differ widely ; for Cowley supposes them commonly to operate upon the mind by suggestion ; Tasso represents ...
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Introduction | 5 |
Authors Advertisement to the Third Edition | 13 |
Milton | 15 |
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Absalom and Achitophel Addison afterwards appears beauties blank verse called censured character Charles Dryden comedy composition Congreve considered Cowley criticism death delight diction diligence dramatick Dryden Dunciad Earl easily elegance endeavoured English English poetry epick epitaph Euripides excellence fancy favour friends genius heroick Homer honour Iliad images imitation Jacob Tonson John Dryden judgement Juvenal kind King known labour lady language Latin learning Letters lines lived Lord Lord Halifax metaphysical poets Milton mind nature never numbers opinion Paradise Lost passions perhaps Pindar play pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise preface produced publick published reader reason remarks reputation rhyme satire says seems sentiments shew shewn sometimes stanza supposed tell things Thomson thou thought tion told tragedy translation Tyrannick Love verses versification Virgil virtue WILLIAM CONGREVE words write written wrote