Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1968 - English poetry |
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Page 112
... images . It is not to be considered as the effusion of real passion ; for passion runs not after remote allusions and obscure opinions . Passion plucks no berries from the myrtle and ivy , nor calls upon Arethuse and Mincius , nor tells ...
... images . It is not to be considered as the effusion of real passion ; for passion runs not after remote allusions and obscure opinions . Passion plucks no berries from the myrtle and ivy , nor calls upon Arethuse and Mincius , nor tells ...
Page 127
... images . This Milton has undertaken , and performed with pregnancy and vigour of mind peculiar to himself . Whoever considers the few radical positions which the Scriptures afforded him , will wonder by what energetick operation he ...
... images . This Milton has undertaken , and performed with pregnancy and vigour of mind peculiar to himself . Whoever considers the few radical positions which the Scriptures afforded him , will wonder by what energetick operation he ...
Page 197
... images such as the superficies of nature readily supplies ; he has a just claim to popu- larity , because he writes to common degrees of knowledge , and is free at least from philosophical pedantry , unless perhaps the end of a song To ...
... images such as the superficies of nature readily supplies ; he has a just claim to popu- larity , because he writes to common degrees of knowledge , and is free at least from philosophical pedantry , unless perhaps the end of a song To ...
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