Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Dent, 1925 - English poetry |
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... says , " no man could have ; fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure , had he not known its author . " He finds the poem stupid , unskilful , irreligious . It was ( at the time he wrote of it ) 150 years old : now twice those years ...
... says , " no man could have ; fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure , had he not known its author . " He finds the poem stupid , unskilful , irreligious . It was ( at the time he wrote of it ) 150 years old : now twice those years ...
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... says of the stone with which Cain slew his brother : I saw him fling the stone , as if he meant At once his murther and his monument . Of the sword taken from Goliah , he says : A sword so great , that it was only fit To take off his ...
... says of the stone with which Cain slew his brother : I saw him fling the stone , as if he meant At once his murther and his monument . Of the sword taken from Goliah , he says : A sword so great , that it was only fit To take off his ...
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... says of Spenser , that he wrote no language , but has formed what Butler calls a Babylonish dialect , in itself harsh and barbarous , but made , by exalted genius and extensive learning , the vehicle of so much instruc- tion and so much ...
... says of Spenser , that he wrote no language , but has formed what Butler calls a Babylonish dialect , in itself harsh and barbarous , but made , by exalted genius and extensive learning , the vehicle of so much instruc- tion and so much ...
Contents
ABRAHAM COWLEY 16181667 | 44 |
JOHN MILTON 16081674 | 64 |
SAMUEL BUTLER 16121680 | 115 |
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