Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1964 - Poets, English |
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Samuel Johnson. COWLEY THE Life of Cowley , notwithstanding the penury of English biography , has been written by Dr. Sprat , an author whose pregnancy of imagination and elegance of language have deservedly set him high in the ranks of ...
Samuel Johnson. COWLEY THE Life of Cowley , notwithstanding the penury of English biography , has been written by Dr. Sprat , an author whose pregnancy of imagination and elegance of language have deservedly set him high in the ranks of ...
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... Cowley . Milton is generally content to express the thoughts of the ancients in their language ; Cowley , without much loss of purity or elegance , accommodates the diction of Rome to his own conceptions . At the Restoration , after all ...
... Cowley . Milton is generally content to express the thoughts of the ancients in their language ; Cowley , without much loss of purity or elegance , accommodates the diction of Rome to his own conceptions . At the Restoration , after all ...
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... Cowley certainly errs , by introducing pedantry far more frequently than Tasso . I know not , indeed , why they should be compared ; for the resem- blance of Cowley's work to Tasso's is only that they ... Cowley's poetry it will be COWLEY 45.
... Cowley certainly errs , by introducing pedantry far more frequently than Tasso . I know not , indeed , why they should be compared ; for the resem- blance of Cowley's work to Tasso's is only that they ... Cowley's poetry it will be COWLEY 45.
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