Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1933 - English poetry |
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Page 29
... admiration . HAVING thus endeavoured to exhibit a general re- presentation of the style and sentiments of the meta- physical poets , it is now proper to examine particularly the works of Cowley , who was almost the last of that race ...
... admiration . HAVING thus endeavoured to exhibit a general re- presentation of the style and sentiments of the meta- physical poets , it is now proper to examine particularly the works of Cowley , who was almost the last of that race ...
Page 236
... admired , because , to write it , the author must be master of two of the most different talents in nature . A talent ... Admiration and laughter are of such opposite natures , that they are seldom created by the same person . The man of ...
... admired , because , to write it , the author must be master of two of the most different talents in nature . A talent ... Admiration and laughter are of such opposite natures , that they are seldom created by the same person . The man of ...
Page 309
... admiration fresh ; and haste is to be made , lest some other event should lay hold upon mankind . Occasional compositions may however secure to a writer the praise both of learning and facility ; for they cannot be the effect of long ...
... admiration fresh ; and haste is to be made , lest some other event should lay hold upon mankind . Occasional compositions may however secure to a writer the praise both of learning and facility ; for they cannot be the effect of long ...
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Absalom and Achitophel Addison admiration afterwards ancient appears beauties better blank verse Cato censure character Charles Dryden comedy compositions considered Cowley criticism death delight diction diligence dramatick Dryden duke Earl elegance English excellence fancy favour friends genius heroick honour Hudibras images imagination imitation Jacob Tonson John Dryden judgement Juvenal kind King known labour Lady language Latin learning lines lived lord Lord Conway Lord Roscommon Milton mind nature never NIHIL numbers observed opinion Paradise Lost passions perhaps Philips Pindar play pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope pounds praise preface produced publick published reader reason relates remarks reputation rhyme satire says seems Sempronius sentiments shew shewn sometimes Sprat supposed Syphax Tatler thing thou thought tion told tragedy translation truth Tyrannick Love verses versification Virgil virtue Waller Whig words write written wrote