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Page 53
... forming defcriptions , 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 seeft me here at midnight ...
... forming defcriptions , 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 seeft me here at midnight ...
Page 63
... formed by nature for one kind of writing more than for another , his power seems to have been greatesft in the fa- miliar and the feftive . The next clafs of his poems is called The Miftrefs , of which it is not neceffary to select any ...
... formed by nature for one kind of writing more than for another , his power seems to have been greatesft in the fa- miliar and the feftive . The next clafs of his poems is called The Miftrefs , of which it is not neceffary to select any ...
Page 73
... forming lie , Close in their facred fecundine afleep . The fame thought is more generally , and therefore more poetically , expreffed by Cafi- mir , a writer , who has many of the beauties and faults of Cowley : Omnibus mundi Dominator ...
... forming lie , Close in their facred fecundine afleep . The fame thought is more generally , and therefore more poetically , expreffed by Cafi- mir , a writer , who has many of the beauties and faults of Cowley : Omnibus mundi Dominator ...
Page 86
... known . Of characters either not yet introduced , or fhewn but upon few occafions , the full extent and the nice difcriminations cannot be ascertained . The fable fable is plainly implex , formed rather from the Odyffey 86 COWLEY .
... known . Of characters either not yet introduced , or fhewn but upon few occafions , the full extent and the nice difcriminations cannot be ascertained . The fable fable is plainly implex , formed rather from the Odyffey 86 COWLEY .
Page 87
Samuel Johnson. fable is plainly implex , formed rather from the Odyffey than the Iliad : and many artifi- ces of diverfification are employed , with the skill of a man acquainted with the best models . The paft is recalled by narration ...
Samuel Johnson. fable is plainly implex , formed rather from the Odyffey than the Iliad : and many artifi- ces of diverfification are employed , with the skill of a man acquainted with the best models . The paft is recalled by narration ...
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