Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1968 - English poetry |
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... Pindar spoke , but his manner of speaking . He was therefore not at all restrained to his expressions , nor much to his sentiments ; nothing was required of him , but not to write as Pindar would not have written . Of the Olympick Ode ...
... Pindar spoke , but his manner of speaking . He was therefore not at all restrained to his expressions , nor much to his sentiments ; nothing was required of him , but not to write as Pindar would not have written . Of the Olympick Ode ...
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... Pindar . In the following odes , where Cowley chooses his own subjects , he sometimes rises to dignity truly Pindarick , and , if some deficiencies of language be forgiven , his strains are such as those of the Theban bard were to his ...
... Pindar . In the following odes , where Cowley chooses his own subjects , he sometimes rises to dignity truly Pindarick , and , if some deficiencies of language be forgiven , his strains are such as those of the Theban bard were to his ...
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... Pindar's style ! Even those who cannot perhaps find in the Isthmian or Nemeaean songs what Antiquity has disposed them to expect , will at least see that they are ill represented by such puny poetry ; and all will determine that if this ...
... Pindar's style ! Even those who cannot perhaps find in the Isthmian or Nemeaean songs what Antiquity has disposed them to expect , will at least see that they are ill represented by such puny poetry ; and all will determine that if this ...
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