Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-DrydenClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... Donne , the greatest wit , though not the best poet of our nation . ' DRYDEN , Works , xi . 123 . ' If we are not so great wits as Donne , yet certainly we are better poets . ' Ib . xiii . 109 . 2 An Aristotelian scholar informs me that ...
... Donne , the greatest wit , though not the best poet of our nation . ' DRYDEN , Works , xi . 123 . ' If we are not so great wits as Donne , yet certainly we are better poets . ' Ib . xiii . 109 . 2 An Aristotelian scholar informs me that ...
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... Donne and Cowley , by happen- ing to possess more wit , and faculty of illustration , than other men , are supposed to have been incapable of nature or feeling : they are usually opposed to such writers as Shenstone and Parnell ...
... Donne and Cowley , by happen- ing to possess more wit , and faculty of illustration , than other men , are supposed to have been incapable of nature or feeling : they are usually opposed to such writers as Shenstone and Parnell ...
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... Donne to Cowley , we find the most fantastic out - of - the - way thoughts , but in the most pure and genuine mother Eng- lish ; in the modern poets the most obvious thoughts in language the 61 In perusing the works of this race of ...
... Donne to Cowley , we find the most fantastic out - of - the - way thoughts , but in the most pure and genuine mother Eng- lish ; in the modern poets the most obvious thoughts in language the 61 In perusing the works of this race of ...
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... Donne , a man of very extensive and various knowledge , and by Jonson , whose manner resembled that of Donne more in the ruggedness of his lines than in the cast of his sentiments " . 63 When their reputation was high they had ...
... Donne , a man of very extensive and various knowledge , and by Jonson , whose manner resembled that of Donne more in the ruggedness of his lines than in the cast of his sentiments " . 63 When their reputation was high they had ...
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... Donne shews his medicinal knowledge in some encomias- 68 tick verses : I ' In every thing there naturally grows A balsamum to keep it fresh and new , If ' twere not injur'd by extrinsique blows ; Your youth [ birth ] and Eng . Poets ...
... Donne shews his medicinal knowledge in some encomias- 68 tick verses : I ' In every thing there naturally grows A balsamum to keep it fresh and new , If ' twere not injur'd by extrinsique blows ; Your youth [ birth ] and Eng . Poets ...
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