Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1968 - English poetry |
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Page 95
... Philips has mistaken the time of the year ; for Milton , in his Elegies , declares that with the advance of the Spring he feels the increase of his poetical force , redeunt in carmina vires . To this it is answered , that Philips could ...
... Philips has mistaken the time of the year ; for Milton , in his Elegies , declares that with the advance of the Spring he feels the increase of his poetical force , redeunt in carmina vires . To this it is answered , that Philips could ...
Page 223
... Philips has obtained ; he can only hope to be considered as the repeater of a jest . " The parody on Milton , ' says Gildon , ' is the only tolerable production of its author . ' This is a censure too dogmatical and violent . The poem ...
... Philips has obtained ; he can only hope to be considered as the repeater of a jest . " The parody on Milton , ' says Gildon , ' is the only tolerable production of its author . ' This is a censure too dogmatical and violent . The poem ...
Page 231
... Philips : they admire points and turns , and conse- quently have no judgement of what is great and majestick ; he ... Philips , who make the ancients , and particularly Virgil , their standard . ' But , before I enter on this subject , I ...
... Philips : they admire points and turns , and conse- quently have no judgement of what is great and majestick ; he ... Philips , who make the ancients , and particularly Virgil , their standard . ' But , before I enter on this subject , I ...
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 Lives of the English Poets, Samuel Johnson Volumes 83-84 of World's classics |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Editor | George Birkbeck Norman Hill |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1968 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 6 Jul 2011 |
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