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Page 59
... poetical genius , who yet , et by a mistaken ambition of exactness , degraded at once their originals and themselves . Denham saw the better way , but has not pursued it with great success . His versions of Virgil are not pleasing ; but ...
... poetical genius , who yet , et by a mistaken ambition of exactness , degraded at once their originals and themselves . Denham saw the better way , but has not pursued it with great success . His versions of Virgil are not pleasing ; but ...
Page 202
... poetical power . His Sacred Poems do not please like some of his other works ; but before the fatal fifty - five , had he written on the same subjects , his success would hardly have been better . It has been the frequent lamentation of ...
... poetical power . His Sacred Poems do not please like some of his other works ; but before the fatal fifty - five , had he written on the same subjects , his success would hardly have been better . It has been the frequent lamentation of ...
Page 316
... poetical ratiocination , in which the argument suffers little from the metre . In the poem on The Birth of the Prince of Wales , nothing is very remarkable but the exorbitant adulation , and that insensibility of the precipice on which ...
... poetical ratiocination , in which the argument suffers little from the metre . In the poem on The Birth of the Prince of Wales , nothing is very remarkable but the exorbitant adulation , and that insensibility of the precipice on which ...
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