Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-DrydenClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... excellence is truth : he that professes love ought to feel its power " . Petrarch was a real lover , and Laura doubt- less deserved his tenderness . Of Cowley we are told by Barnes , who had means enough of information , that , whatever ...
... excellence is truth : he that professes love ought to feel its power " . Petrarch was a real lover , and Laura doubt- less deserved his tenderness . Of Cowley we are told by Barnes , who had means enough of information , that , whatever ...
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... excellence is natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover to solicit reciprocal regard by an elaborate display of his own qualifications . The desire of pleasing has in different men produced actions of heroism and effusions of wit ...
... excellence is natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover to solicit reciprocal regard by an elaborate display of his own qualifications . The desire of pleasing has in different men produced actions of heroism and effusions of wit ...
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... excellence 2 . 39 For the rejection of this play it is difficult now to find the reason ; it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power_of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of disaffection he exculpates ...
... excellence 2 . 39 For the rejection of this play it is difficult now to find the reason ; it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power_of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of disaffection he exculpates ...
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... excellence no other poet has hitherto afforded . To choose the best among many good is one of the most hazardous attempts of criticism . I know not whether Scaliger himself has persuaded many readers to join with him in his preference ...
... excellence no other poet has hitherto afforded . To choose the best among many good is one of the most hazardous attempts of criticism . I know not whether Scaliger himself has persuaded many readers to join with him in his preference ...
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... excellence than that in which Cowley condemns exuberance of Wit : ' Yet ' tis not to adorn and gild each part ; That shews more cost than art . Jewels at nose and lips but ill appear ' ; Rather than all things wit , let none be there ...
... excellence than that in which Cowley condemns exuberance of Wit : ' Yet ' tis not to adorn and gild each part ; That shews more cost than art . Jewels at nose and lips but ill appear ' ; Rather than all things wit , let none be there ...
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