The lives of the most eminent English poetsJ. Buckland, 1787 |
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... reader's esteem for the work and the author . To love excellence , is natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover to folicit reciprocal regard by an elabo- * Barnefii Anacreontem . Orig . edit . rate 1 rate difplay of his own ...
... reader's esteem for the work and the author . To love excellence , is natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover to folicit reciprocal regard by an elabo- * Barnefii Anacreontem . Orig . edit . rate 1 rate difplay of his own ...
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Samuel Johnson. ing inftructs , and their fubtility furprifes ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought , and , though he fometimes admires , is feldom pleased . From this account of their compofitions it will be rea ...
Samuel Johnson. ing inftructs , and their fubtility furprifes ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought , and , though he fometimes admires , is feldom pleased . From this account of their compofitions it will be rea ...
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... were perhaps more defi- rous of being admired than understood , they fome- times drew their conceits from receffes of learning not very much frequented by common readers of poetry . Thus very 26 COWLEY . DENHAM, MILTON,
... were perhaps more defi- rous of being admired than understood , they fome- times drew their conceits from receffes of learning not very much frequented by common readers of poetry . Thus very 26 COWLEY . DENHAM, MILTON,
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Samuel Johnson. very much frequented by common readers of poetry . Thus Cowley on Knowledge : The facred tree midst the fair orchard grew ; The phoenix Truth did on it reft , And built his perfum'd neft , That right Porphyrian tree which ...
Samuel Johnson. very much frequented by common readers of poetry . Thus Cowley on Knowledge : The facred tree midst the fair orchard grew ; The phoenix Truth did on it reft , And built his perfum'd neft , That right Porphyrian tree which ...
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... reader may per- haps cry out - Confufion worse confounded . Here lies a fhe fun , and a he moon here She gives the beft light to his sphere , Or each is both , and all , and fo They unto one another nothing owe . DONNE . Who but Donne ...
... reader may per- haps cry out - Confufion worse confounded . Here lies a fhe fun , and a he moon here She gives the beft light to his sphere , Or each is both , and all , and fo They unto one another nothing owe . DONNE . Who but Donne ...
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Æneid againſt anfwer appears becauſe cenfure character Charles Dryden compofitions confidered converfation Cowley criticiſm criticks deferve defign defire diſcover Dryden eafily Earl elegance Engliſh excellence expreffions exprefs fafe faid fame fatire fays fecond feems feldom fenfe fent fentiments fhall fhew fhould fince firft firſt fome fomething fometimes foon ftill ftudies ftyle fubject fuch fuffered fufficiently fupply fuppofed fure genius heroick himſelf houſe Hudibras itſelf John Dryden King labour laft laſt learning leaſt lefs Lord meaſure Milton mind moft moſt muft muſt neceffary never NIHIL numbers obferved occafion paffage paffed paffions Paradife Loft perfon perhaps Pindar pleafing pleaſe pleaſure poem poet poetical poetry praife praiſe prefent profe publick publiſhed purpoſe racter raiſed reafon reft reprefented rhyme ſeems ſtudy thefe theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thought tion tragedy tranflation univerfally uſed verfe verfification verſes Virgil Waller whofe write written