Lives of the English Poets, Waller, Milton, CowleyCassell, Limited, 1901 - 192 pages |
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Page 43
... beginning ; and the last paragraph , on the cable , is in part ridiculously mean , and in part ridiculously tumid . The poem , however , is such as may be justly praised , without much allowance for the state of our poetry and language ...
... beginning ; and the last paragraph , on the cable , is in part ridiculously mean , and in part ridiculously tumid . The poem , however , is such as may be justly praised , without much allowance for the state of our poetry and language ...
Page 44
... beginning is too splendid for jest , and the conclusion too light for seriousness . The versification is studied , the scenes are diligently displayed , and the images artfully amplified ; but as it ends neither in joy nor sorrow , it ...
... beginning is too splendid for jest , and the conclusion too light for seriousness . The versification is studied , the scenes are diligently displayed , and the images artfully amplified ; but as it ends neither in joy nor sorrow , it ...
Page 49
... beginning with the same letter . But this knack , whatever be its value , was so frequent among early writers , that Gascoigne , a writer of the sixteenth century , warns the young poet against affecting it ; Shakespeare , in the ...
... beginning with the same letter . But this knack , whatever be its value , was so frequent among early writers , that Gascoigne , a writer of the sixteenth century , warns the young poet against affecting it ; Shakespeare , in the ...
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... beginning of his sixteenth year , to Christ's College , in Cambridge , where he entered a sizar , Feb. 12 , 1624 . He was at this time eminently skilled in the Latin tongue ; and he himself , by annexing the dates to his first ...
... beginning of his sixteenth year , to Christ's College , in Cambridge , where he entered a sizar , Feb. 12 , 1624 . He was at this time eminently skilled in the Latin tongue ; and he himself , by annexing the dates to his first ...
Page 75
... beginning , being probably most in pain for his Latinity , he endeavours to defend his use of the word persona ; but , if I remember right , he misses a better authority than any that he has found , that of Juvenal in his fourth satire ...
... beginning , being probably most in pain for his Latinity , he endeavours to defend his use of the word persona ; but , if I remember right , he misses a better authority than any that he has found , that of Juvenal in his fourth satire ...
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