The lives of the English poetsRivington, 1858 - 414 pages |
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... performances of Cowley and Milton be com- pared ( for May I hold to be superior to both ) , the advantage seems to lie on the side of Cowley . Milton is generally content to express the thoughts of the ancients in their language ...
... performances of Cowley and Milton be com- pared ( for May I hold to be superior to both ) , the advantage seems to lie on the side of Cowley . Milton is generally content to express the thoughts of the ancients in their language ...
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... performance , Suckling could have brought the gaiety , but not the knowledge : Dryden could have sup- plied the knowledge , but not the gaiety . The verses to Davenant , which are vigorously begun , and happily concluded , contain some ...
... performance , Suckling could have brought the gaiety , but not the knowledge : Dryden could have sup- plied the knowledge , but not the gaiety . The verses to Davenant , which are vigorously begun , and happily concluded , contain some ...
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... performances by their just value , and has therefore closed his Miscellanies with the verses upon Crashaw , which apparently excel all that have gone before them , and in which there are beauties which common authors may justly think ...
... performances by their just value , and has therefore closed his Miscellanies with the verses upon Crashaw , which apparently excel all that have gone before them , and in which there are beauties which common authors may justly think ...
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... performance of the work . Sacred History has been always read with submissive reverence , and an imagination overawed and controlled . We have been accustomed to acquiesce in the nakedness and simplicity of the authentic narrative , and ...
... performance of the work . Sacred History has been always read with submissive reverence , and an imagination overawed and controlled . We have been accustomed to acquiesce in the nakedness and simplicity of the authentic narrative , and ...
Page 49
... performance was not his own , but that he had bought it of a vicar for forty pounds . The same attempt was made to rob Addison of Cato , and Pope of his Essay on Criticism . In 1647 , the distresses of the royal family required him to ...
... performance was not his own , but that he had bought it of a vicar for forty pounds . The same attempt was made to rob Addison of Cato , and Pope of his Essay on Criticism . In 1647 , the distresses of the royal family required him to ...
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