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Page 31
... beauties which common authors may justly think not only above their attainment , but above their ambition . To the Miscellanies succeed the Anacreontiques , or para- phrastical translations of some little poems , which pass , however ...
... beauties which common authors may justly think not only above their attainment , but above their ambition . To the Miscellanies succeed the Anacreontiques , or para- phrastical translations of some little poems , which pass , however ...
Page 37
... beauties and faults of Cowley : Omnibus mundi Dominator horis Aptat urgendas per inane pennas , Pars adhuc nido latet , & futuros Crescit in annos . Cowley , whatever was his subject , seems to have been carried , by a kind of destiny ...
... beauties and faults of Cowley : Omnibus mundi Dominator horis Aptat urgendas per inane pennas , Pars adhuc nido latet , & futuros Crescit in annos . Cowley , whatever was his subject , seems to have been carried , by a kind of destiny ...
Page 245
... beauties take , From the gay shews thy dainty sculptures make . Thy lines a mess of rhyming nonsense yield , A senseless tale , with flattering fustian fill'd . No grain of sense does in one line appear , Thy words big bulks of ...
... beauties take , From the gay shews thy dainty sculptures make . Thy lines a mess of rhyming nonsense yield , A senseless tale , with flattering fustian fill'd . No grain of sense does in one line appear , Thy words big bulks of ...
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Absalom and Achitophel Addison admiration afterwards ancient appears beauties better blank verse Cato censure character Charles Dryden compositions considered Cowley criticism death delight diction diligence dramatick Dryden duke Earl elegance endeavoured English excellence fancy favour friends genius heroick honour Hudibras images imagination imitation Jacob Tonson John Dryden judgement Juvenal kind King known labour Lady language Latin learning lines lived lord Lord Conway Lord Roscommon Milton mind nature never NIHIL numbers observed opinion Paradise Lost passages passions performance perhaps Philips Pindar play pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope pounds praise produced publick published reader reason relates remarks reputation rhyme satire says seems Sempronius sentiments shew shewn sometimes Sprat supposed Syphax Tatler thing thou thought tion told tragedy translation Tyrannick Love verses versification Virgil virtue Waller Whig words write written wrote