Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1968 - English poetry |
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Page xiii
... passages , better perhaps than anywhere else in the Lives , we can appreciate the standards of eighteenth- century poetry , and fathom their limitations . Poetry and criticism , to begin with , were to ' tend to the promotion of piety ...
... passages , better perhaps than anywhere else in the Lives , we can appreciate the standards of eighteenth- century poetry , and fathom their limitations . Poetry and criticism , to begin with , were to ' tend to the promotion of piety ...
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... passages in which poets have exemplified their own precepts , none will easily be found of greater excellence than that in which Cowley condemns exuber- ance of Wit : Yet ' tis not to adorn and gild each part , That shews more cost than ...
... passages in which poets have exemplified their own precepts , none will easily be found of greater excellence than that in which Cowley condemns exuber- ance of Wit : Yet ' tis not to adorn and gild each part , That shews more cost than ...
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... passage by building a bridge , because the difficulty of Satan's passage is described as real and sensible , and the bridge ought to be only figurative . The hell assigned to the re- bellious spirits is described as not less local than ...
... passage by building a bridge , because the difficulty of Satan's passage is described as real and sensible , and the bridge ought to be only figurative . The hell assigned to the re- bellious spirits is described as not less local than ...
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