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Page 24
In forming descriptions , they looked out , not for images , but for conceits . Night
has been a common subject , which poets have contended to adorn . Dryden's
Night is well known ; Donne's is as follows : Thou seest me here at midnight , now
...
In forming descriptions , they looked out , not for images , but for conceits . Night
has been a common subject , which poets have contended to adorn . Dryden's
Night is well known ; Donne's is as follows : Thou seest me here at midnight , now
...
Page 28
... of words are introduced , is practised , not by those who talk to be understood ,
but by those who write to be admired . The Anacreontics therefore of Cowley give
now all the age to pleasure which they ever gave . If he was formed 28 COWLEY
.
... of words are introduced , is practised , not by those who talk to be understood ,
but by those who write to be admired . The Anacreontics therefore of Cowley give
now all the age to pleasure which they ever gave . If he was formed 28 COWLEY
.
Page 29
If he was formed by nature for one kind of writing more than for another , his
power seems to have been greatest in the familiar and the festive . The next class
of his poems is called The Mistress , of which it is not necessary to select any ...
If he was formed by nature for one kind of writing more than for another , his
power seems to have been greatest in the familiar and the festive . The next class
of his poems is called The Mistress , of which it is not necessary to select any ...
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... shew us that he knows what an egg contains Thou into the close nests of Time
dost peep , And there with piercing eye Through the firm shell and the thick white
dost spy Years to come a - forming lie , Close in their sacred secundine asleep .
... shew us that he knows what an egg contains Thou into the close nests of Time
dost peep , And there with piercing eye Through the firm shell and the thick white
dost spy Years to come a - forming lie , Close in their sacred secundine asleep .
Page 39
The fable is plainly implex , formed rather from the Odyssey than the Iliad : and
many artifices of diversification are employed , with the skill of a man acquainted
with the best models . The past is recalled by narration , and the future
anticipated ...
The fable is plainly implex , formed rather from the Odyssey than the Iliad : and
many artifices of diversification are employed , with the skill of a man acquainted
with the best models . The past is recalled by narration , and the future
anticipated ...
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| Title | The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 Collection of British and American Authors Collection of British authors Volumes 418-419 of Collection of British authors, Tauchnitz edition Volume 418 of Tauchnitz edition The Lives of the English Poets, Samuel Johnson |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1858 |
| Original from | Barcelona Athenaeum Library |
| Digitized | 22 Dec 2008 |
| Length | 414 pages |
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