The Lives of the English Poets; and a criticism on their works, Volume 11790 |
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... language have deservedly fet him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friend- fhip , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life of Cow- ley ...
... language have deservedly fet him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friend- fhip , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life of Cow- ley ...
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... language , but of comprehenfion of things , as to more tardy minds feems fcarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , fince a volume of his poems was not only written but printed in his thirteenth ...
... language , but of comprehenfion of things , as to more tardy minds feems fcarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , fince a volume of his poems was not only written but printed in his thirteenth ...
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... language ; Cowley , without much lofs of purity or elegance , accommo- dates the diction of Rome to his own concep- tions . At the Restoration , after all the diligence of his long fervice , and with consciousness not only of the merit ...
... language ; Cowley , without much lofs of purity or elegance , accommo- dates the diction of Rome to his own concep- tions . At the Restoration , after all the diligence of his long fervice , and with consciousness not only of the merit ...
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... language . If by a more noble and more adequate con- ception that be confidered as Wit which is at once natural and new , that which , though not obvious , is , upon its firft production , ac- knowledged to be juft ; if it be that which ...
... language . If by a more noble and more adequate con- ception that be confidered as Wit which is at once natural and new , that which , though not obvious , is , upon its firft production , ac- knowledged to be juft ; if it be that which ...
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... language , and the familiar part of language continues long the fame ; the dialogue of comedy , when it is transcribed from popular manners and real life , is read from age to age with equal pleasure . The artifices of inverfion , by ...
... language , and the familiar part of language continues long the fame ; the dialogue of comedy , when it is transcribed from popular manners and real life , is read from age to age with equal pleasure . The artifices of inverfion , by ...
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