Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1926 - English poetry |
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... admiration . HAVING thus endeavoured to exhibit a general re- presentation of the style and sentiments of the meta- physical poets , it is now proper to examine particularly the works of Cowley , who was almost the last of that race ...
... admiration . HAVING thus endeavoured to exhibit a general re- presentation of the style and sentiments of the meta- physical poets , it is now proper to examine particularly the works of Cowley , who was almost the last of that race ...
Page 40
... admiration which is due to great comprehension of knowledge , and great fertility of fancy . thoughts are often new , and often striking ; but the greatness of one part is disgraced by the littleness of another ; and total negligence of ...
... admiration which is due to great comprehension of knowledge , and great fertility of fancy . thoughts are often new , and often striking ; but the greatness of one part is disgraced by the littleness of another ; and total negligence of ...
Page 236
... admired , because , to write it , the author must be master of two of the most different talents in nature . A talent ... Admiration and laughter are of such opposite natures , that they are seldom created by the same person . The man of ...
... admired , because , to write it , the author must be master of two of the most different talents in nature . A talent ... Admiration and laughter are of such opposite natures , that they are seldom created by the same person . The man of ...
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Absalom and Achitophel Addison admiration afterwards ancient appears beauties better blank verse Cato censure character Charles Dryden compositions considered Cowley criticism death delight diction diligence dramatick Dryden duke Earl elegance English excellence fancy favour friends genius heroick honour Hudibras images imagination imitation Jacob Tonson John Dryden judgement Juvenal kind King knowledge known labour Lady language Latin learning lines lived lord Lord Conway Lord Roscommon Milton mind nature never NIHIL numbers observed opinion Paradise Lost passions perhaps Philips Pindar play pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope pounds praise preface produced publick published reader reason relates remarks reputation rhyme satire says seems Sempronius sentiments shew shewn sometimes Sprat supposed Syphax Tatler thing thou thought tion told tragedy translation truth Tyrannick Love verses versification Virgil virtue Waller Whig words write written wrote