The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1858 - 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... language , but of comprehension of things , as to more tardy minds seem 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 seem 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 , accommo- dates the diction of Rome to his own conceptions . At the Restoration , after all the diligence of his long service , and with consciousness not only of the merit of ...
... language ; Cowley , without much loss of purity or elegance , accommo- dates the diction of Rome to his own conceptions . At the Restoration , after all the diligence of his long service , and with consciousness not only of the merit of ...
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... language . If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be considered as wit which is at once natural and new , that which , though not obvious , is , upon its first production , acknowledged to be just ; if it be that which he ...
... language . If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be considered as wit which is at once natural and new , that which , though not obvious , is , upon its first production , acknowledged to be just ; if it be that which he ...
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... language , and the familiar part of language continues long the same : the dialogue of comedy , when it is transcribed from popular manners and real life , is read from age to age with equal pleasure . The artifices of inversion , by ...
... language , and the familiar part of language continues long the same : the dialogue of comedy , when it is transcribed from popular manners and real life , is read from age to age with equal pleasure . The artifices of inversion , by ...
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