The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1858 - English poetry |
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... performances of Cowley and Milton be com- pared ( for May I hold to be superior to both ) , the advantage seems to lie on the side of Cowley . Milton is generally content to express the thoughts of the ancients in their language ...
... performances of Cowley and Milton be com- pared ( for May I hold to be superior to both ) , the advantage seems to lie on the side of Cowley . Milton is generally content to express the thoughts of the ancients in their language ...
Page 27
... performance , Suckling could have brought the gaiety , but not the knowledge : Dryden could have sup- plied the knowledge , but not the gaiety . The verses to Davenant , which are vigorously begun , and happily concluded , contain some ...
... performance , Suckling could have brought the gaiety , but not the knowledge : Dryden could have sup- plied the knowledge , but not the gaiety . The verses to Davenant , which are vigorously begun , and happily concluded , contain some ...
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... performances by their just value , and has therefore closed his Miscellanies with the verses upon Crashaw , which apparently excel all that have gone before them , and in which there are beauties which common authors may justly think ...
... performances by their just value , and has therefore closed his Miscellanies with the verses upon Crashaw , which apparently excel all that have gone before them , and in which there are beauties which common authors may justly think ...
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... performance was not his own , but that he had bought it of a vicar for forty pounds . The same attempt was made to rob Addison of Cato , and Pope of his Essay on Criticism . In 1647 , the distresses of the royal family required him to ...
... performance was not his own , but that he had bought it of a vicar for forty pounds . The same attempt was made to rob Addison of Cato , and Pope of his Essay on Criticism . In 1647 , the distresses of the royal family required him to ...
Page 51
... His poem on the death of Cowley was his last , and , among his shorter works , his best performance : the numbers are mu- sical , and the thoughts are just . " Cooper's Hill " is the work that confers upon 4 * DENHAM . 51.
... His poem on the death of Cowley was his last , and , among his shorter works , his best performance : the numbers are mu- sical , and the thoughts are just . " Cooper's Hill " is the work that confers upon 4 * DENHAM . 51.
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