Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1926 - English poetry |
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... One of the great sources of poetical delight is description , or the power of presenting pictures to the mind . Cowley gives inferences instead of images , and shews not what may be supposed to have been 42 LIVES OF THE POETS.
... One of the great sources of poetical delight is description , or the power of presenting pictures to the mind . Cowley gives inferences instead of images , and shews not what may be supposed to have been 42 LIVES OF THE POETS.
Page 69
... supposed that he who read so much should have done nothing else ; but Milton found time to write the Masque of Comus , which was pre- sented at Ludlow , then the residence of the Lord President of Wales , in 1634 ; and had the honour of ...
... supposed that he who read so much should have done nothing else ; but Milton found time to write the Masque of Comus , which was pre- sented at Ludlow , then the residence of the Lord President of Wales , in 1634 ; and had the honour of ...
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... supposed ; of which I know not whether it is not to the detriment of our language that we have totally rejected them . Of triplets he is sparing ; but he did not wholly forbear them : of an Alexandrine he has given no example . The ...
... supposed ; of which I know not whether it is not to the detriment of our language that we have totally rejected them . Of triplets he is sparing ; but he did not wholly forbear them : of an Alexandrine he has given no example . The ...
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