The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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... compositions , " The tragical History of Pyramus and Thisbe , " written when he was ten years old ; and " Constantia and Philetus , " written two years after . While he was yet at school he produced a co- medy called " Love's Riddle ...
... compositions , " The tragical History of Pyramus and Thisbe , " written when he was ten years old ; and " Constantia and Philetus , " written two years after . While he was yet at school he produced a co- medy called " Love's Riddle ...
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... compositions it will be readily inferred , that they were not successful in representing or moving the affections . As they were wholly employed on something unexpected and surprising , they had no regard to that uni- formity of ...
... compositions it will be readily inferred , that they were not successful in representing or moving the affections . As they were wholly employed on something unexpected and surprising , they had no regard to that uni- formity of ...
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... compositions , written , some as they were dictated by a mind at leisure , and some as they were called forth by different occasions ; with great variety of style and sentiment , from burlesque levity to awful grandeur . Such an ...
... compositions , written , some as they were dictated by a mind at leisure , and some as they were called forth by different occasions ; with great variety of style and sentiment , from burlesque levity to awful grandeur . Such an ...
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... every man of his time was proud to praise , there are , as there must be in all Cowley's compositions , some striking thoughts , but they are not well wrought . His elegy on Sir Henry Wotton is vigorous and happy : the COWLEY . 35.
... every man of his time was proud to praise , there are , as there must be in all Cowley's compositions , some striking thoughts , but they are not well wrought . His elegy on Sir Henry Wotton is vigorous and happy : the COWLEY . 35.
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... composition unrivalled and alone such gaiety of faney , such facility of ex- pression , such varied similitude , such a succession of images , and such a dance of words , it is in vain to expect except from Cowley . His strength al ...
... composition unrivalled and alone such gaiety of faney , such facility of ex- pression , such varied similitude , such a succession of images , and such a dance of words , it is in vain to expect except from Cowley . His strength al ...
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