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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 ríxvn μsμntızǹ , an imitative art , these writers will , without 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 the ...
... poetry ríxvn μsμntızǹ , an imitative art , these writers will , without 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 the ...
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... poet , nor as- sume the dignity of a writer , by descriptions copied from descriptions , by Imitations bor- rowed ... poetry . Thus Cowley on Know- The sacred tree ' midst the fair orchard grew ; The phoenix Truth did on it rest , And ...
... poet , nor as- sume the dignity of a writer , by descriptions copied from descriptions , by Imitations bor- rowed ... poetry . Thus Cowley on Know- The sacred tree ' midst the fair orchard grew ; The phoenix Truth did on it rest , And ...
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... poetry ; and all will determine that if this be the old Theban strain , it is not worthy of revival . To the disproportion and incongruity of Cowley's sentiments must be added the uncer- tainty and looseness of his measures . He takes ...
... poetry ; and all will determine that if this be the old Theban strain , it is not worthy of revival . To the disproportion and incongruity of Cowley's sentiments must be added the uncer- tainty and looseness of his measures . He takes ...
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... poetry , it will be found that he wrote with abundant fer- tility , but negligent or unskilful selection ; with In his elegy on Sir Henry Wotton , the last lines have such resemblance to the noble epigram of Grotius on the death of ...
... poetry , it will be found that he wrote with abundant fer- tility , but negligent or unskilful selection ; with In his elegy on Sir Henry Wotton , the last lines have such resemblance to the noble epigram of Grotius on the death of ...
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Addison Æneid afterwards appears beauties blank verse called censure character Charles Dryden composition considered Cowley criticism death delight diction diligence Dryden Duke Dunciad Earl elegance endeavoured English English poetry Essay excellence faults favour friends genius Georgics honour Hudibras Iliad images imagination imitation kind King known labour Lady language Latin learning letter lines lived Lord Lord Halifax ment mentioned Milton mind nature never night Night Thoughts nihil numbers observed occasion once opinion panegyric Paradise Lost passage passion performance perhaps Pindar play pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise published Queen racter reader reason received remarks reputation rhyme satire Savage says seems sent sentiments sometimes supposed Swift Syphax Tatler thing thought tion told tragedy translation verses Virgil virtue Waller whigs write written wrote Young