The Lives of the English Poets; and a criticism on their works, Volume 11790 |
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... writes with fo little detail , that fcarcely any thing is diftinctly known , but all is fhewn confused and enlarged through the mist of panegyrick . ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in the year one thousand fix hundred and eigh- teen . His ...
... writes with fo little detail , that fcarcely any thing is diftinctly known , but all is fhewn confused and enlarged through the mist of panegyrick . ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in the year one thousand fix hundred and eigh- teen . His ...
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... write for what Cowley might have learned from his master Pindar to call the dream of a fhadow . " It is furely not difficult , in the folitude of a college , or in the buftle of the world , to find useful ftudies and ferious employment ...
... write for what Cowley might have learned from his master Pindar to call the dream of a fhadow . " It is furely not difficult , in the folitude of a college , or in the buftle of the world , to find useful ftudies and ferious employment ...
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... write this in pain , and " can fay no more : Verbum fapienti . ” He did not long enjoy the pleasure or fuf- fer the ... writing when the feuds of the civil war were yet recent , and the minds of either party were eafily irritated , was ...
... write this in pain , and " can fay no more : Verbum fapienti . ” He did not long enjoy the pleasure or fuf- fer the ... writing when the feuds of the civil war were yet recent , and the minds of either party were eafily irritated , was ...
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... writing poetry they only wrote verfes , and very often fuch verfes as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was fo imperfect , that they were only found to be verfes by counting the fyllables . If the ...
... writing poetry they only wrote verfes , and very often fuch verfes as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was fo imperfect , that they were only found to be verfes by counting the fyllables . If the ...
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... write on their plan , it was at laft neceffary to read and think . No man could be born a meta- phyfical poet , nor affume the dignity of a writer , by defcriptions copied from defcrip- tions , by imitations borrowed from imitations ...
... write on their plan , it was at laft neceffary to read and think . No man could be born a meta- phyfical poet , nor affume the dignity of a writer , by defcriptions copied from defcrip- tions , by imitations borrowed from imitations ...
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