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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Page 112
... images . It is not to be considered as the effusion of real passion ; for passion runs not after remote allusions and obscure opinions . Passion plucks no berries from the myrtle and ivy , nor calls upon Arethuse and Mincius , nor tells ...
... images . It is not to be considered as the effusion of real passion ; for passion runs not after remote allusions and obscure opinions . Passion plucks no berries from the myrtle and ivy , nor calls upon Arethuse and Mincius , nor tells ...
Page 115
... images are properly selected , and nicely distinguished ; but the colours of the diction seem not sufficiently discriminated . I know not whether the characters are kept sufficiently apart . No mirth can , indeed , be found in his ...
... images are properly selected , and nicely distinguished ; but the colours of the diction seem not sufficiently discriminated . I know not whether the characters are kept sufficiently apart . No mirth can , indeed , be found in his ...
Page 127
... images . This Milton has undertaken , and performed with pregnancy and vigour of mind peculiar to himself . Whoever considers the few radical positions which the Scriptures afforded him , will wonder by what energetick operation he ...
... images . This Milton has undertaken , and performed with pregnancy and vigour of mind peculiar to himself . Whoever considers the few radical positions which the Scriptures afforded him , will wonder by what energetick operation he ...
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