Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Dent, 1925 - English poetry |
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... poetical embellishments the writer brought little that could reconcile impatience or attract curiosity . Nothing can be more disgusting than a narrative spangled with conceits ; and conceits are all that the Davideis supplies . One of ...
... poetical embellishments the writer brought little that could reconcile impatience or attract curiosity . Nothing can be more disgusting than a narrative spangled with conceits ; and conceits are all that the Davideis supplies . One of ...
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... poetical power . His Sacred Poems do not please like some of his other works ; but before the fatal fifty - five , had he written on the same subjects , his success would hardly have been better . It has been the frequent lamentation of ...
... poetical power . His Sacred Poems do not please like some of his other works ; but before the fatal fifty - five , had he written on the same subjects , his success would hardly have been better . It has been the frequent lamentation of ...
Page 356
... poetical justice , which is always one of his favourite principles . " Tis certainly the duty of every tragic poet , by an exact distribution of a poetical justice , to imitate the Divine dis- pensation and to inculcate a particular ...
... poetical justice , which is always one of his favourite principles . " Tis certainly the duty of every tragic poet , by an exact distribution of a poetical justice , to imitate the Divine dis- pensation and to inculcate a particular ...
Contents
ABRAHAM COWLEY 16181667 | 44 |
JOHN MILTON 16081674 | 64 |
SAMUEL BUTLER 16121680 | 115 |
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