Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-DrydenClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... Paradise Lost , nor Homer his Iliad , nor Newton his Principia , without immense labour . Nature gave them a bias to their respective pursuits , and that strong propensity , I suppose , is what we mean by Genius . The rest they gave ...
... Paradise Lost , nor Homer his Iliad , nor Newton his Principia , without immense labour . Nature gave them a bias to their respective pursuits , and that strong propensity , I suppose , is what we mean by Genius . The rest they gave ...
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... Paradise Lost , ii . 996 . 5 Grosart's Donne , i . 258 . Deeds of good men ; for by their living [ 26 COWLEY.
... Paradise Lost , ii . 996 . 5 Grosart's Donne , i . 258 . Deeds of good men ; for by their living [ 26 COWLEY.
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... Paradise Lost , i . 292 . 6 Dryden wrote in 1697 : - ' Cow- ley's language is not always pure . ' Works , xiv . 222. See ante , COWLEY , 60n . T by words used comrnonly upon low and trivial occasions , 58 COWLEY.
... Paradise Lost , i . 292 . 6 Dryden wrote in 1697 : - ' Cow- ley's language is not always pure . ' Works , xiv . 222. See ante , COWLEY , 60n . T by words used comrnonly upon low and trivial occasions , 58 COWLEY.
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... Paradise Lost , with Life , by Jonathan Richard- son , 1734 ; Milton's Prose Works , with Life , by Thomas Birch , 1738 ; Milton's Poems , with Life , by Thomas Newton , Bishop of Bristol , 1749-52 . Johnson might also have seen Francis ...
... Paradise Lost , with Life , by Jonathan Richard- son , 1734 ; Milton's Prose Works , with Life , by Thomas Birch , 1738 ; Milton's Poems , with Life , by Thomas Newton , Bishop of Bristol , 1749-52 . Johnson might also have seen Francis ...
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... Paradise Lost . At fifteen , a date which he uses till he is sixteen , he translated 9 or versified two Psalms , 114 and 1363 , which he thought worthy of the publick eye , but they raise no great expectations ; they would in any ...
... Paradise Lost . At fifteen , a date which he uses till he is sixteen , he translated 9 or versified two Psalms , 114 and 1363 , which he thought worthy of the publick eye , but they raise no great expectations ; they would in any ...
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