The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1858 - English poetry |
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... censured as a satire on the King's party . Mr. Dryden , who went with Mr. Sprat to the first ex- hibition , related to Mr. Dennis , " That , when they told Cowley how little favour had been shewn him , he received the news of his ill ...
... censured as a satire on the King's party . Mr. Dryden , who went with Mr. Sprat to the first ex- hibition , related to Mr. Dennis , " That , when they told Cowley how little favour had been shewn him , he received the news of his ill ...
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... censure . They have all the same beauties and faults , and nearly in the same proportion . They are written with ... censured him COWLEY . 29 CONTENTS OF VOLUME I PAGE.
... censure . They have all the same beauties and faults , and nearly in the same proportion . They are written with ... censured him COWLEY . 29 CONTENTS OF VOLUME I PAGE.
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Samuel Johnson. One of the severe theologians of that time censured him as having published a book of profane and lascivious verses . From the charge of profaneness , the constant tenor of his life , which seems to have been eminently ...
Samuel Johnson. One of the severe theologians of that time censured him as having published a book of profane and lascivious verses . From the charge of profaneness , the constant tenor of his life , which seems to have been eminently ...
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... so long enjoyed the highest degree of poetical reputation , that I am not willing to dismiss them with unabated censure ; and surely , though the mode of their composition be erroneous , yet many parts deserve at 34 COWLEY .
... so long enjoyed the highest degree of poetical reputation , that I am not willing to dismiss them with unabated censure ; and surely , though the mode of their composition be erroneous , yet many parts deserve at 34 COWLEY .
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... censure . He says of the Supreme Being , Hà sotto i piedi fato e la natura Ministri humili , e'l moto , e ch'il misura . The second line has in it more of pedantry than perhaps can be found in any other stanza of the poem . In the ...
... censure . He says of the Supreme Being , Hà sotto i piedi fato e la natura Ministri humili , e'l moto , e ch'il misura . The second line has in it more of pedantry than perhaps can be found in any other stanza of the poem . In the ...
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