The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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... produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life , of Cowley ; for he writes with so little detail , that scarcely any thing is distinctly known , but all is shewn confused and enlarged ...
... produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life , of Cowley ; for he writes with so little detail , that scarcely any thing is distinctly known , but all is shewn confused and enlarged ...
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... produced a co- medy called " Love's Riddle , " though it was not published till he had been some time at Cambridge . This comedy is of the pastoral kind , which requires no acquaintance with the living world , and there- fore the time ...
... produced a co- medy called " Love's Riddle , " though it was not published till he had been some time at Cambridge . This comedy is of the pastoral kind , which requires no acquaintance with the living world , and there- fore the time ...
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... produced actions of heroism , and effusions of wit ; but it seems as reasonable to appear the cham- pion as the poet of an " airy nothing , " and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley might have learned from his master Pindar to call ...
... produced actions of heroism , and effusions of wit ; but it seems as reasonable to appear the cham- pion as the poet of an " airy nothing , " and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley might have learned from his master Pindar to call ...
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... produced , from the same university , the two great 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 ...
... produced , from the same university , the two great 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 ...
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... produced it under the title of " The Cutter of Coleman - street . " It was treated continuation of Lucan's Pharsalia to the death of Julius Cæsar , by Thomas May , an eminent poet and historian , who flourished in the reigns of James ...
... produced it under the title of " The Cutter of Coleman - street . " It was treated continuation of Lucan's Pharsalia to the death of Julius Cæsar , by Thomas May , an eminent poet and historian , who flourished in the reigns of James ...
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