The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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... language have deservedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life , of Cowley ...
... language have deservedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life , of Cowley ...
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... the la- bour . Among the English poets , Cowley , Milton , and Pope , might be said " to lisp in numbers ; " and have given such early proofs , not only of powers of language , but of comprehension of things , as to 2 COWLEY .
... the la- bour . Among the English poets , Cowley , Milton , and Pope , might be said " to lisp in numbers ; " and have given such early proofs , not only of powers of language , but of comprehension of things , as to 2 COWLEY .
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Samuel Johnson. language , but of comprehension of things , as to more tardy minds seem scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , since a volume of his poems was not only written , but printed , in ...
Samuel Johnson. language , but of comprehension of things , as to more tardy minds seem scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , since a volume of his poems was not only written , but printed , in ...
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... language ; Cowley , without much loss of purity or elegance , accommodates the diction of Rome to his own con- ceptions . At the Restoration , after all the diligence of his long service , and with consciousness not only of the merit of ...
... language ; Cowley , without much loss of purity or elegance , accommodates the diction of Rome to his own con- ceptions . At the Restoration , after all the diligence of his long service , and with consciousness not only of the merit of ...
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... language . If by a more noble and more adequate concep- tion that be considered as wit which is at once na- tural and new , that which , though not obvious , is , upon its first production , acknowledged to be just ; if it be that which ...
... language . If by a more noble and more adequate concep- tion that be considered as wit which is at once na- tural and new , that which , though not obvious , is , upon its first production , acknowledged to be just ; if it be that which ...
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