The lives of the English poetsRivington, 1858 - 414 pages |
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Page 32
... original than the secondary sense , more upon that from which the illustration is drawn than that to which it is applied . Of this we have a very eminent example in the ode , entitled The Muse , who goes to take the air in an ...
... original than the secondary sense , more upon that from which the illustration is drawn than that to which it is applied . Of this we have a very eminent example in the ode , entitled The Muse , who goes to take the air in an ...
Page 52
... original author . He seems to have been , at least among us , the author of a species of composition that may be denominated local poetry , of which the funda- mental subject is some particular landscape , to be poetically described ...
... original author . He seems to have been , at least among us , the author of a species of composition that may be denominated local poetry , of which the funda- mental subject is some particular landscape , to be poetically described ...
Page 53
... originals and themselves . Denham saw the better way , but has not pursued it with great success . His versions of Virgil are not pleasing ; but they taught Dryden to please better . His poetical imitation of Tully on " Old Age " has ...
... originals and themselves . Denham saw the better way , but has not pursued it with great success . His versions of Virgil are not pleasing ; but they taught Dryden to please better . His poetical imitation of Tully on " Old Age " has ...
Page 71
... original trade ; the rights of nations , and of kings , sink into questions of grammar , if grammarians discuss them . Milton , when he undertook this answer , was weak of body and dim of sight ; but his will was forward , and what was ...
... original trade ; the rights of nations , and of kings , sink into questions of grammar , if grammarians discuss them . Milton , when he undertook this answer , was weak of body and dim of sight ; but his will was forward , and what was ...
Page 83
... original design has been variously conjectured by men who cannot bear to think themselves ignorant of that which , at last , neither diligence nor sagacity can discover . Some find the hint in an Italian tragedy . Voltaire tells a wild ...
... original design has been variously conjectured by men who cannot bear to think themselves ignorant of that which , at last , neither diligence nor sagacity can discover . Some find the hint in an Italian tragedy . Voltaire tells a wild ...
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