Lives of the English Poets, Waller, Milton, CowleyCassell, Limited, 1901 - 192 pages |
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... elegance , and his melody , with equal alacrity , for Charles the Second . It is not possible to read , without some contempt and indignation , poems of the same author , ascribing the highest degree of " power and piety " to Charles ...
... elegance , and his melody , with equal alacrity , for Charles the Second . It is not possible to read , without some contempt and indignation , poems of the same author , ascribing the highest degree of " power and piety " to Charles ...
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... elegance and gaiety . He is never pathetic , and very rarely sublime . He seems neither to have had a mind much elevated by nature nor amplified by learning . His thoughts are such as a liberal conversation and large acquaintance with ...
... elegance and gaiety . He is never pathetic , and very rarely sublime . He seems neither to have had a mind much elevated by nature nor amplified by learning . His thoughts are such as a liberal conversation and large acquaintance with ...
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... elegance of diction , and something to our propriety of thought ; and to him may be applied what Tasso said , with equal spirit and justice , of himself and Guarini , when , having perused the Pastor Fido , he cried out , " If he had ...
... elegance of diction , and something to our propriety of thought ; and to him may be applied what Tasso said , with equal spirit and justice , of himself and Guarini , when , having perused the Pastor Fido , he cried out , " If he had ...
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... elegance . If any exceptions can be made , they are very few : Haddon and Ascham , the pride of Elizabeth's reign , however they may have succeeded in prose , no sooner attempt verse than they provoke de- rision . If we produced ...
... elegance . If any exceptions can be made , they are very few : Haddon and Ascham , the pride of Elizabeth's reign , however they may have succeeded in prose , no sooner attempt verse than they provoke de- rision . If we produced ...
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... him in a Latin poem , which must have raised a high opinion of English elegance . and literature . His purpose was now to have visited Sicily and Greece ; a but hearing of the differences between the king and 6:23 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... him in a Latin poem , which must have raised a high opinion of English elegance . and literature . His purpose was now to have visited Sicily and Greece ; a but hearing of the differences between the king and 6:23 LIVES OF THE POETS .
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