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Page 113
... pleasing speci- men of the familiar descending to the burlesque . His two metrical disquisitions for and against Reason , are no mean specimens of metaphysical poetry . The stanzas against knowledge produce little conviction . In those ...
... pleasing speci- men of the familiar descending to the burlesque . His two metrical disquisitions for and against Reason , are no mean specimens of metaphysical poetry . The stanzas against knowledge produce little conviction . In those ...
Page 114
... pleasing than a faithful representation , having retained their spriteliness , but lost their simplicity . The Anacreon of Cowley , like the Homer of Pope , has admitted the decoration of some modern graces , by which he is undoubtedly ...
... pleasing than a faithful representation , having retained their spriteliness , but lost their simplicity . The Anacreon of Cowley , like the Homer of Pope , has admitted the decoration of some modern graces , by which he is undoubtedly ...
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... pleasing . Of the second ternary † of stanzas , the first endeavours to tell something , and would have told it , had it not been crossed by Hyperion : the second describes well enough the universal prevalence of Poetry ; but I am ...
... pleasing . Of the second ternary † of stanzas , the first endeavours to tell something , and would have told it , had it not been crossed by Hyperion : the second describes well enough the universal prevalence of Poetry ; but I am ...
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Introduction | 5 |
Authors Advertisement to the Third Edition | 13 |
Milton | 15 |
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