Lives of the English Poets: Abraham Cowley. Sir John Denham. John Milton. Samuel Butler. Earl of Rochester. Earl of Roscommon. Thomas Otway. Edmund Waller. John Dryden. John Pomfret. Earl of Dorset. George Stepney. John Philips. William Walsh. Edmund Smith. Richard Duke. William King. Thomas Sprat. Earl of Halifax. Thomas Parnell. Samuel Garth. Nicholas Rowe. Joseph Addison. John Hughes. John Sheffield, duke of Buckinghamshire. Matthew PriorOxford University Press, 1952 - English poetry |
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... beauties and faults , and nearly in the same proportion . They are written with exuberance of wit , and with copiousness of learning ; and it is truly asserted by Sprat , that the pleni- tude of the writer's knowledge flows in upon his ...
... beauties and faults , and nearly in the same proportion . They are written with exuberance of wit , and with copiousness of learning ; and it is truly asserted by Sprat , that the pleni- tude of the writer's knowledge flows in upon his ...
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... beauties , and he seldom falls into gross faults . His versification is smooth , but rarely vigor- ous , and his rhymes are remarkably exact . He improved taste , if he did not enlarge knowledge , and may be numbered among the ...
... beauties , and he seldom falls into gross faults . His versification is smooth , but rarely vigor- ous , and his rhymes are remarkably exact . He improved taste , if he did not enlarge knowledge , and may be numbered among the ...
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... beauties of it . Fourthly , the means to attain the end proposed . ' Compare the Greek and English tragick poets justly , and without partiality , according to those rules . ' Then secondly , consider whether Aristotle has made a just ...
... beauties of it . Fourthly , the means to attain the end proposed . ' Compare the Greek and English tragick poets justly , and without partiality , according to those rules . ' Then secondly , consider whether Aristotle has made a just ...
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