Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 |
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Page 61
... poetical genius , who yet , by a mistaken ambition of exactness , degraded at once their originals and themselves . Denham saw the better way , but has not pursued it with great success . His versions of Virgil are not pleasing ; but ...
... poetical genius , who yet , by a mistaken ambition of exactness , degraded at once their originals and themselves . Denham saw the better way , but has not pursued it with great success . His versions of Virgil are not pleasing ; but ...
Page 211
... poetical devo- tion cannot often please . The doctrines of religion may indeed be defended in a didactick poem ; and he who has the happy power of arguing in verse , will not lose it because his subject is sacred . A poet may describe ...
... poetical devo- tion cannot often please . The doctrines of religion may indeed be defended in a didactick poem ; and he who has the happy power of arguing in verse , will not lose it because his subject is sacred . A poet may describe ...
Page 447
... poetical simile is the discovery of likeness between two actions , in their general nature dissimilar , or of causes terminat- ing by different operations in some resemblance of effect . But the mention of another like consequence from ...
... poetical simile is the discovery of likeness between two actions , in their general nature dissimilar , or of causes terminat- ing by different operations in some resemblance of effect . But the mention of another like consequence from ...
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Lives of the English Poets: The Prior Congreve, Blackmore and Pope Samuel Johnson No preview available - 2003 |
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