Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Dent, 1925 - English poetry |
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Page 289
... imitation . He had several imitations of Cowley : Testitur hinc tot sermo coloribus Quot tu , Pococki , dissimilis tui Orator effers , quot vicissim Te memores celebrare gaudent . I will not commend the figure which makes the orator pro ...
... imitation . He had several imitations of Cowley : Testitur hinc tot sermo coloribus Quot tu , Pococki , dissimilis tui Orator effers , quot vicissim Te memores celebrare gaudent . I will not commend the figure which makes the orator pro ...
Page 321
... imitation of Shakespeare's style . In what he thought himself an imitator of Shakespeare , it is not easy to conceive . The numbers , the diction , the sentiments , and the conduct , everything in which imitation can consist , are ...
... imitation of Shakespeare's style . In what he thought himself an imitator of Shakespeare , it is not easy to conceive . The numbers , the diction , the sentiments , and the conduct , everything in which imitation can consist , are ...
Page 356
... imitation of the Divine dispensation . And yet the author of this tragedy does not only run counter to this in the fate of his principal character , but everywhere throughout it makes virtue suffer and vice triumph : for not only Cato ...
... imitation of the Divine dispensation . And yet the author of this tragedy does not only run counter to this in the fate of his principal character , but everywhere throughout it makes virtue suffer and vice triumph : for not only Cato ...
Contents
ABRAHAM COWLEY 16181667 | 44 |
JOHN MILTON 16081674 | 64 |
SAMUEL BUTLER 16121680 | 115 |
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