Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-DrydenClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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Page 48
... Latin : a poem on the Sheldonian Theatre , in which all kinds of verse are shaken together , is unhappily inserted in the Musa Anglicana . Pin- darism prevailed above half a century , but at last died gradually . away , and other ...
... Latin : a poem on the Sheldonian Theatre , in which all kinds of verse are shaken together , is unhappily inserted in the Musa Anglicana . Pin- darism prevailed above half a century , but at last died gradually . away , and other ...
Page 66
... Latin poems may be justly considered as legitimate classical compositions . Cowley's Latinity presents a mode of diction half Latin and half English . Milton was a more perfect scholar . ' T. WARTON , Milton's Poems , 1791 , Preface ...
... Latin poems may be justly considered as legitimate classical compositions . Cowley's Latinity presents a mode of diction half Latin and half English . Milton was a more perfect scholar . ' T. WARTON , Milton's Poems , 1791 , Preface ...
Page 85
... Latin poems " . He married a gentlewoman of the name of Caston 3 , a Welsh family , by whom he had two sons , John the poet , and Christopher who studied the law , and adhered , as the law taught him , to the King's party , for which he ...
... Latin poems " . He married a gentlewoman of the name of Caston 3 , a Welsh family , by whom he had two sons , John the poet , and Christopher who studied the law , and adhered , as the law taught him , to the King's party , for which he ...
Page 87
... Latin tongue ; 8 and he himself by annexing the dates to his first compositions , a boast of which the learned Politian had given him an example , seems to commend the earliness of his own pro- ficiency to the notice of posterity ; but ...
... Latin tongue ; 8 and he himself by annexing the dates to his first compositions , a boast of which the learned Politian had given him an example , seems to commend the earliness of his own pro- ficiency to the notice of posterity ; but ...
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... Latin writers . With what limitations this universality is to be understood who shall inform us ? ' ' To whose service , by the inten- tions of my parents and friends , I was destined of a child , and in mine own resolutions , ' Works ...
... Latin writers . With what limitations this universality is to be understood who shall inform us ? ' ' To whose service , by the inten- tions of my parents and friends , I was destined of a child , and in mine own resolutions , ' Works ...
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