The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volume 1 |
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Page 61
... mention the ancients , he might have found it full- blown in modern Italy . Thus Sannazaro : Afpice quam variis diftringar Lesbia curis ! Uror , & heu ! noftro manat ab igne liquor ; Sum Sum Nilus , fumque Etna fimul ; reftringite ...
... mention the ancients , he might have found it full- blown in modern Italy . Thus Sannazaro : Afpice quam variis diftringar Lesbia curis ! Uror , & heu ! noftro manat ab igne liquor ; Sum Sum Nilus , fumque Etna fimul ; reftringite ...
Page 67
... mention of particulars is turned more upon the origi- nal than the secondary fenfe , more upon that from which the illuftration is drawn than that to which it is applied . Of this we have a very eminent example in the ode intituled The ...
... mention of particulars is turned more upon the origi- nal than the secondary fenfe , more upon that from which the illuftration is drawn than that to which it is applied . Of this we have a very eminent example in the ode intituled The ...
Page 73
... mention is made ; it never appears in books , nor emerges in converfation . By the Spectator it has been once quoted ; by Rymer it has once been praised ; and by Dryden , in Mac Flecknoe , " it has once been imitated ; nor do I ...
... mention is made ; it never appears in books , nor emerges in converfation . By the Spectator it has been once quoted ; by Rymer it has once been praised ; and by Dryden , in Mac Flecknoe , " it has once been imitated ; nor do I ...
Page 108
... mentions , is to be found in many lines and couplets , which convey much meaning in few words , and exhibit the fentiment with more weight than bulk . On the Thames . " Though with thofe ftreams he no refemblance " hold , " Whofe foam ...
... mentions , is to be found in many lines and couplets , which convey much meaning in few words , and exhibit the fentiment with more weight than bulk . On the Thames . " Though with thofe ftreams he no refemblance " hold , " Whofe foam ...
Page 118
... than threat was probably punishment . This poem , which mentions his exile , proves likewife that it was not perpetual ; for it concludes with a refolution of returning fome 1 fome time to Cambridge . And it may be conjectured 118 MILTO N.
... than threat was probably punishment . This poem , which mentions his exile , proves likewife that it was not perpetual ; for it concludes with a refolution of returning fome 1 fome time to Cambridge . And it may be conjectured 118 MILTO N.
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