Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope |
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Page 21
... less happy ; for they are not dictated by nature or by passion , and have neither gallantry nor tenderness . They have the coldness of Cowley , without his wit , the dull exercises of a skilful versifier , resolved at all adventures to ...
... less happy ; for they are not dictated by nature or by passion , and have neither gallantry nor tenderness . They have the coldness of Cowley , without his wit , the dull exercises of a skilful versifier , resolved at all adventures to ...
Page 22
... less remembered , raised less emotion . Some of them , however , are preserved by their inherent excellence . The burlesque of Boileau's ode on Namur has in some parts such airiness and levity as will always procure it readers , even ...
... less remembered , raised less emotion . Some of them , however , are preserved by their inherent excellence . The burlesque of Boileau's ode on Namur has in some parts such airiness and levity as will always procure it readers , even ...
Page 27
... less distinct , is less striking . He has altered the stanza of Spenser as a house is altered by building another in its place of a different form . With how little resemblance he has formed his new stanza to that of his master these ...
... less distinct , is less striking . He has altered the stanza of Spenser as a house is altered by building another in its place of a different form . With how little resemblance he has formed his new stanza to that of his master these ...
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... less wit and not greater virtue . £ f coon como dand Here is again discovered the inhabitant of Cheapside , whose head cannot keep his poetry unmingled with trade . To hinder that intellectual bankruptcy which he affects to fear he will ...
... less wit and not greater virtue . £ f coon como dand Here is again discovered the inhabitant of Cheapside , whose head cannot keep his poetry unmingled with trade . To hinder that intellectual bankruptcy which he affects to fear he will ...
Page 50
... less industrious to search out the merit of an author , than sagacious in discerning his errors and defects , and takes more ore pleasure in commending the beauties than exposing the blemishes of a laudable writ- ing . Like Horace , in ...
... less industrious to search out the merit of an author , than sagacious in discerning his errors and defects , and takes more ore pleasure in commending the beauties than exposing the blemishes of a laudable writ- ing . Like Horace , in ...
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