The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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... poets , Cowley and Milton , of dissimilar genius , of opposite principles ; but concurring in the cultivation of Latin poetry , in which the English , till their works and May's poem appeared , seemed unable to contest the palm with any ...
... poets , Cowley and Milton , of dissimilar genius , of opposite principles ; but concurring in the cultivation of Latin poetry , in which the English , till their works and May's poem appeared , seemed unable to contest the palm with any ...
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... poetry réxm untixò , an imitative art , these writers will , without great wrong , lose their right to the name of poets ; for they cannot be said to have imitated any thing : they neither copied na- ture nor life ; neither painted the ...
... poetry réxm untixò , an imitative art , these writers will , without great wrong , lose their right to the name of poets ; for they cannot be said to have imitated any thing : they neither copied na- ture nor life ; neither painted the ...
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... . As the authors of this race were perhaps more desirous of being admired than understood , they sometimes drew their conceits from recesses of learning not very much frequented by common readers of poetry 20 COWLEY .
... . As the authors of this race were perhaps more desirous of being admired than understood , they sometimes drew their conceits from recesses of learning not very much frequented by common readers of poetry 20 COWLEY .
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... poetry . The stanzas against knowledge produce little conviction . In those which are intended to exalt the human faculties , reason has its proper task assigned it ; that of judging , not of things re- vealed , but of the reality of ...
... poetry . The stanzas against knowledge produce little conviction . In those which are intended to exalt the human faculties , reason has its proper task assigned it ; that of judging , not of things re- vealed , but of the reality of ...
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... poetry ; all the boys and girls caught the pleasing fashion , and they that could do nothing else , could write like Pindar . The rights of antiquity were invaded , and disorder tried to break into the Latin ; a poem on the Sheldonian ...
... poetry ; all the boys and girls caught the pleasing fashion , and they that could do nothing else , could write like Pindar . The rights of antiquity were invaded , and disorder tried to break into the Latin ; a poem on the Sheldonian ...
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