Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-DrydenClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... WARTON , Pope's Works , ii . 268 . ' May is certainly a sonorous dactylist . His skill is in parody .... Milton's Latin poems may be justly considered as legitimate classical compositions . Cowley's Latinity presents a mode of diction ...
... WARTON , Pope's Works , ii . 268 . ' May is certainly a sonorous dactylist . His skill is in parody .... Milton's Latin poems may be justly considered as legitimate classical compositions . Cowley's Latinity presents a mode of diction ...
Page 68
... Warton speaks of ' Johnson's dissertation on Cowley and his fantastic style , ' and of ' his discussion on false and unnatural thoughts . ' Warton's Pope's Works , i . 267 . Johnson may have borrowed the word from Dryden , who wrote ...
... Warton speaks of ' Johnson's dissertation on Cowley and his fantastic style , ' and of ' his discussion on false and unnatural thoughts . ' Warton's Pope's Works , i . 267 . Johnson may have borrowed the word from Dryden , who wrote ...
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... Warton , ' is the groundwork of all the Lives ' Milton's Poems , ed . T. Warton , 1791 , p . 422 . 3 Post , FENTOΝ , 14 . * ' The arms that John Milton did use and seal his letters with were , Argent a spread eagle with two heads gules ...
... Warton , ' is the groundwork of all the Lives ' Milton's Poems , ed . T. Warton , 1791 , p . 422 . 3 Post , FENTOΝ , 14 . * ' The arms that John Milton did use and seal his letters with were , Argent a spread eagle with two heads gules ...
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... Warton's Milton's Poems , p . 370 . Of Milton's version of Psalm 136 Miss Martineau wrote ( Auto . i . 34 ) : - It is the very hymn for children , set to its own simple tune . ' n . 4 Post , ROWE , 35 Johnson reviewed this translation ...
... Warton's Milton's Poems , p . 370 . Of Milton's version of Psalm 136 Miss Martineau wrote ( Auto . i . 34 ) : - It is the very hymn for children , set to its own simple tune . ' n . 4 Post , ROWE , 35 Johnson reviewed this translation ...
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... WARTON , Milton's Poems , p . 430 . For a mystical sermon of his see The Spectator , No. 221. Cromwell , in his first speech in parliament , accused him of preaching flat Popery at Paul's Cross . ' Carlyle's Cromwell , ed . 1857 , i ...
... WARTON , Milton's Poems , p . 430 . For a mystical sermon of his see The Spectator , No. 221. Cromwell , in his first speech in parliament , accused him of preaching flat Popery at Paul's Cross . ' Carlyle's Cromwell , ed . 1857 , i ...
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