LivesA. Miller, 1800 - English poetry |
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... criticism on the works of Cowley , it is not improper to give some account . The metaphysical poets were men of learning , and to shew their learning was their whole endeavour ; but , unluckily resolving to shew it in rhyme , in- stead ...
... criticism on the works of Cowley , it is not improper to give some account . The metaphysical poets were men of learning , and to shew their learning was their whole endeavour ; but , unluckily resolving to shew it in rhyme , in- stead ...
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... criticism . I know not whether Scaliger himself has persuaded many readers to join with him in his preference of the two favourite odes , which he estimates in his raptures at the value of a king- dom . I will however venture to ...
... criticism . I know not whether Scaliger himself has persuaded many readers to join with him in his preference of the two favourite odes , which he estimates in his raptures at the value of a king- dom . I will however venture to ...
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... criticism very justly conceived and happily ex- pressed . Cowley's critical abilities have not been sufficiently observed : the few decisions and remarks which his prefaces and his notes on the Davideis supply , were at that time ...
... criticism very justly conceived and happily ex- pressed . Cowley's critical abilities have not been sufficiently observed : the few decisions and remarks which his prefaces and his notes on the Davideis supply , were at that time ...
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... criticisms as Epick poems commonly supply . The plan of the whole work is very imperfectly shewn by the third part . The duration of an unfinished action cannot be known . Of characters either not yet introduced , or shewn but upon few ...
... criticisms as Epick poems commonly supply . The plan of the whole work is very imperfectly shewn by the third part . The duration of an unfinished action cannot be known . Of characters either not yet introduced , or shewn but upon few ...
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... criticism on his Poems , the Essays which accompany them must not be forgotten . What is said by Sprat of his conversation , that no man could draw from it any suspicion of his excellence in poetry , may be applied to these compositions ...
... criticism on his Poems , the Essays which accompany them must not be forgotten . What is said by Sprat of his conversation , that no man could draw from it any suspicion of his excellence in poetry , may be applied to these compositions ...
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