The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1B. Tauchnitz, 1858 - 402 pages |
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Page 11
... remarks and memorials which I have been able to add to the narrative of Dr. Sprat ; who , writing when the feuds of the civil war were yet recent , and the minds of either party were easily irritated , was obliged to pass over many ...
... remarks and memorials which I have been able to add to the narrative of Dr. Sprat ; who , writing when the feuds of the civil war were yet recent , and the minds of either party were easily irritated , was obliged to pass over many ...
Page 13
... remarks on the actions of men , and the vicissitudes of life , without interest and without emotion . Their courtship was void of fondness , and their lamentation of sorrow . Their wish was only to say what they hoped had never been ...
... remarks on the actions of men , and the vicissitudes of life , without interest and without emotion . Their courtship was void of fondness , and their lamentation of sorrow . Their wish was only to say what they hoped had never been ...
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... REMARKS are not easily understood without examples ; and I have therefore collected instances of the modes of writing by which this species of poets ( for poets they were called by themselves and their admirers ) was eminently ...
... REMARKS are not easily understood without examples ; and I have therefore collected instances of the modes of writing by which this species of poets ( for poets they were called by themselves and their admirers ) was eminently ...
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... drew their illustrations were true ; it was enough that they were popular . Bacon remarks , that some falsehoods are continued by tradition , because they supply commodious allusions . 1 It gave a piteous groan , and so it broke COWLEY .
... drew their illustrations were true ; it was enough that they were popular . Bacon remarks , that some falsehoods are continued by tradition , because they supply commodious allusions . 1 It gave a piteous groan , and so it broke COWLEY .
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... remarks , were then in the highest esteem . It is related by Clarendon that Cowley always acknow- ledges his obligation obligation to the learning and industry of Jonson ; have found no traces of Jonson in his works : to emulate Donne ...
... remarks , were then in the highest esteem . It is related by Clarendon that Cowley always acknow- ledges his obligation obligation to the learning and industry of Jonson ; have found no traces of Jonson in his works : to emulate Donne ...
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