The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1858 - English poetry |
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... poetry . But the basis of all excellence is truth : he that professes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a real lover , and Laura doubtless deserved his tenderness . Of Cowley , we are told by Barnes , * who had means enough of ...
... poetry . But the basis of all excellence is truth : he that professes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a real lover , and Laura doubtless deserved his tenderness . Of Cowley , we are told by Barnes , * who had means enough of ...
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... poetry . He composed in Latin several books on plants , of which the first and second display the qualities of herbs , in elegiac verse ; the third and fourth , the beauties of flowers in various measures ; and the fifth and sixth , the ...
... poetry . He composed in Latin several books on plants , of which the first and second display the qualities of herbs , in elegiac verse ; the third and fourth , the beauties of flowers in various measures ; and the fifth and sixth , the ...
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... poetry téxvn μiuntion , an imitative art , these writers will , with- out great wrong , lose their right to the name of poets ; for they cannot be said to have imitated any thing : they neither copied nature nor life ; neither painted ...
... poetry téxvn μiuntion , an imitative art , these writers will , with- out great wrong , lose their right to the name of poets ; for they cannot be said to have imitated any thing : they neither copied nature nor life ; neither painted ...
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... poets , allow them to be wits . Dryden confesses of himself and his contemporaries , that they fall below Donne in wit ; but maintains , that they surpass him in poetry . If wit be well described by Pope , as being " that which has been ...
... poets , allow them to be wits . Dryden confesses of himself and his contemporaries , that they fall below Donne in wit ; but maintains , that they surpass him in poetry . If wit be well described by Pope , as being " that which has been ...
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... poets ( for poets they were called by themselves and their admirers ) was eminently distinguished . As the authors of this race were perhaps ... poetry . Thus Cowley on Knowledge : The sacred tree ' midst the fair orchard grew ; 14 COWLEY .
... poets ( for poets they were called by themselves and their admirers ) was eminently distinguished . As the authors of this race were perhaps ... poetry . Thus Cowley on Knowledge : The sacred tree ' midst the fair orchard grew ; 14 COWLEY .
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