The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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... " airy nothing , " and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley might have learned from his master Pindar to call " the dream of a shadow , " Barnesii Anacreontem . - Dr . J. It is surely not difficult , in the solitude of COWLEY . 5.
... " airy nothing , " and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley might have learned from his master Pindar to call " the dream of a shadow , " Barnesii Anacreontem . - Dr . J. It is surely not difficult , in the solitude of COWLEY . 5.
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... but as the subject for his task , we sometimes esteem as learned , and sometimes despise as trifling , always admire as in- genious , and always condemn as unnatural . The Pindaric Odes are now to be considered ; a 40 COWLEY .
... but as the subject for his task , we sometimes esteem as learned , and sometimes despise as trifling , always admire as in- genious , and always condemn as unnatural . The Pindaric Odes are now to be considered ; a 40 COWLEY .
Page 41
... Pindar spoke , but his manner of speaking . He was therefore not at all restrained to his expressions , nor much to his sentiments ; nothing was required of him , but not to write as Pindar would not have written . Of the Olympic Ode ...
... Pindar spoke , but his manner of speaking . He was therefore not at all restrained to his expressions , nor much to his sentiments ; nothing was required of him , but not to write as Pindar would not have written . Of the Olympic Ode ...
Page 42
... Pindar . In the following odes , where Cowley chooses his own subjects , ' he sometimes rises to dignity , truly Pindaric ; and , if some deficiencies of language be forgiven , his strains are such as those of the The- ban Bard were to ...
... Pindar . In the following odes , where Cowley chooses his own subjects , ' he sometimes rises to dignity , truly Pindaric ; and , if some deficiencies of language be forgiven , his strains are such as those of the The- ban Bard were to ...
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... Pindaric Pegasus closely in , Which does to rage begin- -'Tis an unruly and a hard - mouth'd horse- ' Twill no unskilful touch endure , But flings writer and reader too that sits not sure . The fault of Cowley , and perhaps of all the ...
... Pindaric Pegasus closely in , Which does to rage begin- -'Tis an unruly and a hard - mouth'd horse- ' Twill no unskilful touch endure , But flings writer and reader too that sits not sure . The fault of Cowley , and perhaps of all the ...
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