Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1933 - English poetry |
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... poetical compositions , ' The tragical History of Pyra- mus and Thisbe , ' written when he was ten years old ; and Constantia and Philetus , ' written two years after . This While he was yet at school he produced a comedy called ...
... poetical compositions , ' The tragical History of Pyra- mus and Thisbe , ' written when he was ten years old ; and Constantia and Philetus , ' written two years after . This While he was yet at school he produced a comedy called ...
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... poetical genius , who yet , by a mistaken ambition of exactness , degraded at once their originals and themselves . Denham saw the better way , but has not pursued it with great success . His versions of Virgil are not pleasing ; but ...
... poetical genius , who yet , by a mistaken ambition of exactness , degraded at once their originals and themselves . Denham saw the better way , but has not pursued it with great success . His versions of Virgil are not pleasing ; but ...
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... poetical devo- tion cannot often please . The doctrines of religion may indeed be defended in a didactick poem ; and he who has the happy power of arguing in verse , will not lose it because his subject is sacred . A poet may describe ...
... poetical devo- tion cannot often please . The doctrines of religion may indeed be defended in a didactick poem ; and he who has the happy power of arguing in verse , will not lose it because his subject is sacred . A poet may describe ...
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