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The Life of Cowley , notwithstanding the penury of English biography , has been
written by Dr . Sprat , an author whose pregnancy of imagination and elegance of
language have deservedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of ...
The Life of Cowley , notwithstanding the penury of English biography , has been
written by Dr . Sprat , an author whose pregnancy of imagination and elegance of
language have deservedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of ...
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Among the English poets , Cowley , Milton , and Pope , might be said " to lispin
nuinbers ; " and have given such early proofs , not only of powers of language ,
but of comprehension of things , as to more tardy minds seem scarcely credible .
Among the English poets , Cowley , Milton , and Pope , might be said " to lispin
nuinbers ; " and have given such early proofs , not only of powers of language ,
but of comprehension of things , as to more tardy minds seem scarcely credible .
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Milton is generally content to express the thoughts of the ancients in their
language ; Cowley , without much loss of purity or elegance , accommodates the
diction of Rome to his own conceptions . At the Restoration , after all the diligence
of his ...
Milton is generally content to express the thoughts of the ancients in their
language ; Cowley , without much loss of purity or elegance , accommodates the
diction of Rome to his own conceptions . At the Restoration , after all the diligence
of his ...
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But Pope's account of wit is undoubtedly erroneous : he depresses it below its
natural dignity , and reduces it from strength of thought to happiness of language
. If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be considered as wit ...
But Pope's account of wit is undoubtedly erroneous : he depresses it below its
natural dignity , and reduces it from strength of thought to happiness of language
. If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be considered as wit ...
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Men have been wise in very different modes ; but they have always laughed the
same way : Levity of thought naturally produced familiarity of language , and the
familiar part of language continues long the same : the dialogue of comedy ...
Men have been wise in very different modes ; but they have always laughed the
same way : Levity of thought naturally produced familiarity of language , and the
familiar part of language continues long the same : the dialogue of comedy ...
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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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