Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1968 - English poetry |
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... beauties of Flowers in various measures ; and in the fifth and sixth , the uses of Trees in heroick numbers . At the same time were produced from the same uni- versity , the two great Poets , Cowley and Milton , of dis- similar genius ...
... beauties of Flowers in various measures ; and in the fifth and sixth , the uses of Trees in heroick numbers . At the same time were produced from the same uni- versity , the two great Poets , Cowley and Milton , of dis- similar genius ...
Page 338
... beauties of it . Fourthly , the means to attain the end proposed . ' Compare the Greek and English tragick poets justly , and without partiality , according to those rules . " Then secondly , consider whether Aristotle has made a just ...
... beauties of it . Fourthly , the means to attain the end proposed . ' Compare the Greek and English tragick poets justly , and without partiality , according to those rules . " Then secondly , consider whether Aristotle has made a just ...
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... beauties placed in admirable order by each other ; and there was a predominant fancy and spirit of his own infused , superior to what some draw off from the ancients , or from poesies here and there culled out of the moderns , by a ...
... beauties placed in admirable order by each other ; and there was a predominant fancy and spirit of his own infused , superior to what some draw off from the ancients , or from poesies here and there culled out of the moderns , by a ...
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