The lives of the English poetsRivington, 1858 - 414 pages |
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... ancients in their language ; Cowley , without much loss of purity or elegance , accommo- dates the diction of Rome to his own conceptions . At the Restoration , after all the diligence of his long service , and with consciousness not ...
... ancients in their language ; Cowley , without much loss of purity or elegance , accommo- dates the diction of Rome to his own conceptions . At the Restoration , after all the diligence of his long service , and with consciousness not ...
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... ancients , he might have found it full - blown in modern Italy . Thus Sannazaro : Aspice quam variis distringar Lesbia curis ! Uror , et heu ! nostro manat ab igne liquor : Sum Nilus , sumque Ætna simul ; restringite flammam O lacrimæ ...
... ancients , he might have found it full - blown in modern Italy . Thus Sannazaro : Aspice quam variis distringar Lesbia curis ! Uror , et heu ! nostro manat ab igne liquor : Sum Nilus , sumque Ætna simul ; restringite flammam O lacrimæ ...
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... ancients have continued to delight through all the changes of human manners , he contented himself with a deciduous laurel , of which the verdure in its spring was bright and gay , but which time has been continually stealing from his ...
... ancients have continued to delight through all the changes of human manners , he contented himself with a deciduous laurel , of which the verdure in its spring was bright and gay , but which time has been continually stealing from his ...
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... ancients in every kind of poetry but tragedy . It may be affirmed , without any encomiastic fervour , that he brought to his poetic labours a mind replete with learning , and that his pages are embellished with all the ornaments which ...
... ancients in every kind of poetry but tragedy . It may be affirmed , without any encomiastic fervour , that he brought to his poetic labours a mind replete with learning , and that his pages are embellished with all the ornaments which ...
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... ancients . This was a scheme of improvement which seems to have busied many literary projectors of that age . Cowley , who had more means than Milton of knowing what was wanting to the embellishments of life , formed the same plan of ...
... ancients . This was a scheme of improvement which seems to have busied many literary projectors of that age . Cowley , who had more means than Milton of knowing what was wanting to the embellishments of life , formed the same plan of ...
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