Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-DrydenClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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Page xxvi
... wrote to Mrs. Delany on Nov. 16 , 1779 : ' I hope you will get Dr. Johnson's Prefaces to the Lives , && c . , of the Poets , which however is not easy , because they are not to be bought unless you buy also a perfect litter of poets in ...
... wrote to Mrs. Delany on Nov. 16 , 1779 : ' I hope you will get Dr. Johnson's Prefaces to the Lives , && c . , of the Poets , which however is not easy , because they are not to be bought unless you buy also a perfect litter of poets in ...
Page 11
... wrote , ' till the general re- demption . ' 3 In Cowley's Discourse by Way of Vision concerning the Government of Oliver Cromwell is a copy of verses written , he says , ' on the funeral day of the late man who made himself to be called ...
... wrote , ' till the general re- demption . ' 3 In Cowley's Discourse by Way of Vision concerning the Government of Oliver Cromwell is a copy of verses written , he says , ' on the funeral day of the late man who made himself to be called ...
Page 19
... wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so imperfect that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables . If the father of criticism has ...
... wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so imperfect that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables . If the father of criticism has ...
Page 48
... wrote Dryden , ' has made it spread . ' He adds that he sees ' a noble sort of poetry , so happily restored by one man and so grossly copied by almost all the rest . ' Works , xii . 300 , 302 . One of these copiers was Dryden's cousin ...
... wrote Dryden , ' has made it spread . ' He adds that he sees ' a noble sort of poetry , so happily restored by one man and so grossly copied by almost all the rest . ' Works , xii . 300 , 302 . One of these copiers was Dryden's cousin ...
Page 64
... wrote Lamb to Cole- ridge , ' if Cowley's prose essays , in particular , as well as no inconsider- able part of his verse , be not delicious . I prefer the graceful rambling of his essays even to the courtly elegance and ease of Addison ...
... wrote Lamb to Cole- ridge , ' if Cowley's prose essays , in particular , as well as no inconsider- able part of his verse , be not delicious . I prefer the graceful rambling of his essays even to the courtly elegance and ease of Addison ...
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