Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-DrydenClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... language have deservedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life of Cowley ; for ...
... language have deservedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life of Cowley ; for ...
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... language , but of comprehension of things , as to more tardy minds seems scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , since a volume of his poems was not only written but printed in his thirteenth ...
... language , but of comprehension of things , as to more tardy minds seems scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , since a volume of his poems was not only written but printed in his thirteenth ...
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... language ; Cowley , without much loss of purity or elegance , accommodates the diction of Rome to his own conceptions ' . At the Restoration , after all the diligence of his long service , 35 and with consciousness not only of the merit ...
... language ; Cowley , without much loss of purity or elegance , accommodates the diction of Rome to his own conceptions ' . At the Restoration , after all the diligence of his long service , 35 and with consciousness not only of the merit ...
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... language . ' See Appendix E. 5 If by a more noble and more adequate conception that 55 3 ' Doctor 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 ...
... language . ' See Appendix E. 5 If by a more noble and more adequate conception that 55 3 ' Doctor 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 ...
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... 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 authors COWLEY 21.
... 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 authors COWLEY 21.
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