The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 - English poetry |
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Page 41
... fufficiently at eafe that could attend to fuch minutenefs of phyfiology . But the power of Cowley is not fo much to move the affec- tions , as to exercise the understanding . The Chronicle is a compofition unrivalled and alone : fuch ...
... fufficiently at eafe that could attend to fuch minutenefs of phyfiology . But the power of Cowley is not fo much to move the affec- tions , as to exercise the understanding . The Chronicle is a compofition unrivalled and alone : fuch ...
Page 45
... fufficiently indulgent : that confufion of images may entertain for a moment ; but , being unnatural , it foon grows wearifome . Cowley de- lighted in it , as much as if he had invented it ; but , not to mention the antients , he might ...
... fufficiently indulgent : that confufion of images may entertain for a moment ; but , being unnatural , it foon grows wearifome . Cowley de- lighted in it , as much as if he had invented it ; but , not to mention the antients , he might ...
Page 46
... fufficiently explained . His endeavour was , not to fhew precifely what Pindar fpoke , but his manner of Speaking . He was therefore not at all restrained to his expreffions , nor much to his fentiments ; nothing was required of him ...
... fufficiently explained . His endeavour was , not to fhew precifely what Pindar fpoke , but his manner of Speaking . He was therefore not at all restrained to his expreffions , nor much to his fentiments ; nothing was required of him ...
Page 60
... pared , I remember only the defcription of Heaven , in which the different manner of the two writers is fufficiently difcernible . Cowley's is fcarcely defcrip- tion , unless it be poffible to defcribe by negatives tion , бо COWLEY .
... pared , I remember only the defcription of Heaven , in which the different manner of the two writers is fufficiently difcernible . Cowley's is fcarcely defcrip- tion , unless it be poffible to defcribe by negatives tion , бо COWLEY .
Page 89
... fufficiently peevish in a man , who , when he mentions his exile from the college , relates , with great luxuriance , the compenfation which the pleafures of the theatre afford him . Plays were therefore only criminal when they were ...
... fufficiently peevish in a man , who , when he mentions his exile from the college , relates , with great luxuriance , the compenfation which the pleafures of the theatre afford him . Plays were therefore only criminal when they were ...
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