Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-DrydenClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... censure . They have all the same 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 plenitude of the writer's ...
... censure . They have all the same 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 plenitude of the writer's ...
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... censure ; and surely , though the mode of their composition be erroneous , yet many parts deserve at least that admiration which is due to great comprehension of knowledge and great fertility of fancy . The thoughts are often new and ...
... censure ; and surely , though the mode of their composition be erroneous , yet many parts deserve at least that admiration which is due to great comprehension of knowledge and great fertility of fancy . The thoughts are often new and ...
Page 55
... censure . He says of the Supreme Being , ' Hà sotto i piedi e ( il ] fato e la natura , Ministri humili , e ' l moto , e ch ' il [ chi ' l ] misura * . ' The second line has in it more of pedantry than perhaps can 169 be found in any ...
... censure . He says of the Supreme Being , ' Hà sotto i piedi e ( il ] fato e la natura , Ministri humili , e ' l moto , e ch ' il [ chi ' l ] misura * . ' The second line has in it more of pedantry than perhaps can 169 be found in any ...
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... censure , by inserting a prayer taken from Sidney's Arcadia , and In Defensio Secunda , Milton says that it was not through want of courage or zeal that he had never borne arms . His training fitted him for different , though not less ...
... censure , by inserting a prayer taken from Sidney's Arcadia , and In Defensio Secunda , Milton says that it was not through want of courage or zeal that he had never borne arms . His training fitted him for different , though not less ...
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... censure it , with a little extension of their malice could contrive what they wanted to accuse 4 . King Charles the Second , being now sheltered in Holland , 66 employed Salmasius , professor of Polite Learning at Leyden , to write a ...
... censure it , with a little extension of their malice could contrive what they wanted to accuse 4 . King Charles the Second , being now sheltered in Holland , 66 employed Salmasius , professor of Polite Learning at Leyden , to write a ...
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