Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-DrydenClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... HORACE WALPOLE , Works , i . 501. See Clarendon's Hist , ( 1826 ) , iv . 240 . 6 Post , COWLEY , 176 n . 1 Ante , COWLEY , 103 . 8 Eng . Poets , vii . 129 ; post , MIL- TON , 181. ' This elegy , ' writes but little passion , a very just ...
... HORACE WALPOLE , Works , i . 501. See Clarendon's Hist , ( 1826 ) , iv . 240 . 6 Post , COWLEY , 176 n . 1 Ante , COWLEY , 103 . 8 Eng . Poets , vii . 129 ; post , MIL- TON , 181. ' This elegy , ' writes but little passion , a very just ...
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... HORACE WALPOLE , Letters , v . 203 . Hume describes his prose writings as ' disagreeable , though not alto- gether defective in genius . ' In an- other edition he had written , ' devoid of genius . ' Hist . of Engl . vii . 343 . ' He ...
... HORACE WALPOLE , Letters , v . 203 . Hume describes his prose writings as ' disagreeable , though not alto- gether defective in genius . ' In an- other edition he had written , ' devoid of genius . ' Hist . of Engl . vii . 343 . ' He ...
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... HORACE WALPOLE , Works , i . 412. See Burnet's Hist . i . 104 . The title - page bears the date of 1671. These poems were licensed on July 2 , 1670 , and ' may have appeared late in that year . ' Masson's Milton , vi . 651. See post ...
... HORACE WALPOLE , Works , i . 412. See Burnet's Hist . i . 104 . The title - page bears the date of 1671. These poems were licensed on July 2 , 1670 , and ' may have appeared late in that year . ' Masson's Milton , vi . 651. See post ...
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... Horace Walpole wrote in 1791 : - ' I would not give this last week's fine weather for all the four Seasons in blank verse . There is more nature in six lines of L'Allegro and Il Pen- seroso than in all the laboured imita- tions of ...
... Horace Walpole wrote in 1791 : - ' I would not give this last week's fine weather for all the four Seasons in blank verse . There is more nature in six lines of L'Allegro and Il Pen- seroso than in all the laboured imita- tions of ...
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... Horace Walpole , perhaps in answer to Johnson , describes an epic poem as ' that most senseless of all the species of poetic compositions , and which pedants call the chef - d'œuvre of the human mind .... When nothing has been ...
... Horace Walpole , perhaps in answer to Johnson , describes an epic poem as ' that most senseless of all the species of poetic compositions , and which pedants call the chef - d'œuvre of the human mind .... When nothing has been ...
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