Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1968 - English poetry |
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Page 121
... poem , of the same length , from which so little can be taken without apparent mutilation . Here are no funeral ... poem be strictly one , whether the poem can be properly termed heroick , and who is the hero , are raised by such ...
... poem , of the same length , from which so little can be taken without apparent mutilation . Here are no funeral ... poem be strictly one , whether the poem can be properly termed heroick , and who is the hero , are raised by such ...
Page 224
... poem on Cider , written in imitation of the Georgicks , may be given this peculiar praise , that it is grounded in truth ; that the precepts which it contains are exact and just ; and that it is therefore , at once , a book of ...
... poem on Cider , written in imitation of the Georgicks , may be given this peculiar praise , that it is grounded in truth ; that the precepts which it contains are exact and just ; and that it is therefore , at once , a book of ...
Page 303
... poem on the war with Spain ; perhaps such a beginning is natural , and could not be avoided without affectation . Both Waller and Dryden might take their hint from the poem on the civil war of Rome , Orbem jam totum , & c . Of the king ...
... poem on the war with Spain ; perhaps such a beginning is natural , and could not be avoided without affectation . Both Waller and Dryden might take their hint from the poem on the civil war of Rome , Orbem jam totum , & c . Of the king ...
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