Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-DrydenClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... describing an old great house ' in which part of his childhood was spent , mentions ' the cheerful store - room , in whose hot window- seat I used to sit and read Cowley . ' Essays of Elia , p . 206 . Cowley , according to Dryden ...
... describing an old great house ' in which part of his childhood was spent , mentions ' the cheerful store - room , in whose hot window- seat I used to sit and read Cowley . ' Essays of Elia , p . 206 . Cowley , according to Dryden ...
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... describes Cowley as ' Anglorum Pindarus , Flaccus , Maro , deliciae , decus et desiderium aevi sui . ' Fasti Oxon . ii . 209. Dryden wrote of him in 1699 : - ' One of our late great poets is sunk in his reputation because he could never ...
... describes Cowley as ' Anglorum Pindarus , Flaccus , Maro , deliciae , decus et desiderium aevi sui . ' Fasti Oxon . ii . 209. Dryden wrote of him in 1699 : - ' One of our late great poets is sunk in his reputation because he could never ...
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... describes it as ' an heroi cal poem of the troubles of David ; which I designed into twelve books ; not for the tribes ' sake , but after the pattern of our master Virgil . ' Eng . Poets , vii . 19 . 2 He finished four books . Post ...
... describes it as ' an heroi cal poem of the troubles of David ; which I designed into twelve books ; not for the tribes ' sake , but after the pattern of our master Virgil . ' Eng . Poets , vii . 19 . 2 He finished four books . Post ...
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... describing hell and telling the history of Lucifer , who was , he says , ' Once general of a gilded host of sprites , Like Hesper leading forth the spangled nights ; But down like lightning , which him struck , he came , And roar'd at ...
... describing hell and telling the history of Lucifer , who was , he says , ' Once general of a gilded host of sprites , Like Hesper leading forth the spangled nights ; But down like lightning , which him struck , he came , And roar'd at ...
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... describes the stone which Turnus lifted against Æneas , he fixes the attention on its bulk and weight : ' Saxum ... describe death by some of its common E 2 COWLEY 51.
... describes the stone which Turnus lifted against Æneas , he fixes the attention on its bulk and weight : ' Saxum ... describe death by some of its common E 2 COWLEY 51.
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