The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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... ment . Cowley , like other poets who have written with narrow views , and , instead of tracing intellectual pleasures in the minds of men , paid their court to temporary prejudices , has been at one time too much praised , and too much ...
... ment . Cowley , like other poets who have written with narrow views , and , instead of tracing intellectual pleasures in the minds of men , paid their court to temporary prejudices , has been at one time too much praised , and too much ...
Page 89
... ment , I never greatly admired , but now much less . " This is surely the language of a man who thinks that he has been injured . He proceeds to describe the course of his conduct , and the train of his thoughts ; and , because he has ...
... ment , I never greatly admired , but now much less . " This is surely the language of a man who thinks that he has been injured . He proceeds to describe the course of his conduct , and the train of his thoughts ; and , because he has ...
Page 92
... ment , which human understanding seems hitherto unable to solve . If nothing may be published but what civil authority shall have previously approv- ed , power must always be the standard of truth : if every dreamer of innovations may ...
... ment , which human understanding seems hitherto unable to solve . If nothing may be published but what civil authority shall have previously approv- ed , power must always be the standard of truth : if every dreamer of innovations may ...
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... ment ; and having , by excessive praises , been con- firmed in great confidence of himself , though he probably had not much considered the principles of society , or the rights of government , undertook the employment without distrust ...
... ment ; and having , by excessive praises , been con- firmed in great confidence of himself , though he probably had not much considered the principles of society , or the rights of government , undertook the employment without distrust ...
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... ment but the wretches who had immediately co- operated in the murder of the King . Milton was certainly not one of them ; he had only justified what they had done . This justification was indeed sufficiently offen- sive ; and ( June 16 ) ...
... ment but the wretches who had immediately co- operated in the murder of the King . Milton was certainly not one of them ; he had only justified what they had done . This justification was indeed sufficiently offen- sive ; and ( June 16 ) ...
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