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Page 29
Cowley delighted in it , as much as if he had invented it ; but , not to mention the
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 ...
Cowley delighted in it , as much as if he had invented it ; but , not to mention the
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 ...
Page 32
Thus all the power of description is destroyed by a scrupulous enumeration ; and
the force of metaphors is lost , when the mind by the mention of particulars is
turned more upon the original than the secondary sense , more upon that from ...
Thus all the power of description is destroyed by a scrupulous enumeration ; and
the force of metaphors is lost , when the mind by the mention of particulars is
turned more upon the original than the secondary sense , more upon that from ...
Page 35
Of the Davideis , no mention is made ; it never appears in books , nor energes in
conversation . By the Spectator it has been once quoted ; by Rymer it has once
been praised ; and by Dryden , in “ Mack Flecknoe , ” it has once been imitated ...
Of the Davideis , no mention is made ; it never appears in books , nor energes in
conversation . By the Spectator it has been once quoted ; by Rymer it has once
been praised ; and by Dryden , in “ Mack Flecknoe , ” it has once been imitated ...
Page 53
The strength of Denham , ” which Pope so emphatically mentions , is to be found
in many lines and couplets , which convey much meaning in few words , and
exhibit the sentiment with more weight than bulk . On the Thames . Though with ...
The strength of Denham , ” which Pope so emphatically mentions , is to be found
in many lines and couplets , which convey much meaning in few words , and
exhibit the sentiment with more weight than bulk . On the Thames . Though with ...
Page 58
What was more than threat was probably punishment . This poem , which
mentions his exile , proves likewise that it was not perpetual ; for it concludes with
a resolution of returning some time to Cambridge . And it may be conjectured ,
from the ...
What was more than threat was probably punishment . This poem , which
mentions his exile , proves likewise that it was not perpetual ; for it concludes with
a resolution of returning some time to Cambridge . And it may be conjectured ,
from the ...
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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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