LivesA. Miller, 1800 - English poetry |
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Page 12
... Milton . Denham and Waller sought another way to fame , by improving the harmony of our numbers . Milton tried the metaphysick style only in his lines upon Hobson the Carrier . Cowley adopted it , and excelled his prede- cessors ...
... Milton . Denham and Waller sought another way to fame , by improving the harmony of our numbers . Milton tried the metaphysick style only in his lines upon Hobson the Carrier . Cowley adopted it , and excelled his prede- cessors ...
Page 25
... Milton is believed to have wanted , the skill to rate his own performances by their just value , and has therefore closed his Miscellanies with the verses upon Crashaw , which apparently excell all that have gone before them , and in ...
... Milton is believed to have wanted , the skill to rate his own performances by their just value , and has therefore closed his Miscellanies with the verses upon Crashaw , which apparently excell all that have gone before them , and in ...
Page 35
... Milton is said to have declared , that the three greatest English poets were Spenser , Shakspeare , and Cowley , His manner he had in common with others : but his sentiments were his own . Upon every subject he thought for himself : and ...
... Milton is said to have declared , that the three greatest English poets were Spenser , Shakspeare , and Cowley , His manner he had in common with others : but his sentiments were his own . Upon every subject he thought for himself : and ...
Page 36
... Milton seems to have borrowed from him . He says of Goliah , His spear , the trunk was of a lofty tree , Which Nature meant some tall ship's mast should be . Milton of Satan : His spear , to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on ...
... Milton seems to have borrowed from him . He says of Goliah , His spear , the trunk was of a lofty tree , Which Nature meant some tall ship's mast should be . Milton of Satan : His spear , to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on ...
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