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Page 40
... poem . In the perusal of the Davideis , as of all Cowley's works , we find wit and learning unprofitably squandered . Attention has no relief ; the affections are never moved ; we are sometimes surprised , but never delighted , and find ...
... poem . In the perusal of the Davideis , as of all Cowley's works , we find wit and learning unprofitably squandered . Attention has no relief ; the affections are never moved ; we are sometimes surprised , but never delighted , and find ...
Page 43
... poem is less familiar than that of his slightest writings . He has given not the same numbers , but the same diction , to the gentle Anacreon and the tem- pestuous Pindar . His versification seems to have had very little of his care ...
... poem is less familiar than that of his slightest writings . He has given not the same numbers , but the same diction , to the gentle Anacreon and the tem- pestuous Pindar . His versification seems to have had very little of his care ...
Page 45
... poem , that else will pass for very careless verses : as before , And over - runs the neighb'ring fields with violent course . " In the second book ; “ And , Down a precipice deep , down he casts them all . 7 And fell adown his ...
... poem , that else will pass for very careless verses : as before , And over - runs the neighb'ring fields with violent course . " In the second book ; “ And , Down a precipice deep , down he casts them all . 7 And fell adown his ...
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... poem ; but this seems to have been known before by May and Sandys , the translators of the Pharsalia and the Metamorphoses . In the Davideis are some hemistichs , or verses left imper- fect by the author , in imitation of Virgil , whom ...
... poem ; but this seems to have been known before by May and Sandys , the translators of the Pharsalia and the Metamorphoses . In the Davideis are some hemistichs , or verses left imper- fect by the author , in imitation of Virgil , whom ...
Page 49
... poem had such reputation as to excite the common artifice by which envy degrades excellence . A report was spread , that the performance was not his own , but that he had bought it of a vicar for forty pounds . The same attempt was made ...
... poem had such reputation as to excite the common artifice by which envy degrades excellence . A report was spread , that the performance was not his own , but that he had bought it of a vicar for forty pounds . The same attempt was made ...
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