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Page 30
... poetical account of the virtues of plants and colours of flowers , is not perused with more sluggish frigidity . The compositions are such as might have been written for penance by a hermit , or for hire by a philosophical rhymer who ...
... poetical account of the virtues of plants and colours of flowers , is not perused with more sluggish frigidity . The compositions are such as might have been written for penance by a hermit , or for hire by a philosophical rhymer who ...
Page 32
... , alas ! allows but one ill winter's day . In the same ode , celebrating the power of the Muse , he gives her prescience , or , in poetical language , the foresight of events hatching in futurity ; but , having once 32 COWLEY .
... , alas ! allows but one ill winter's day . In the same ode , celebrating the power of the Muse , he gives her prescience , or , in poetical language , the foresight of events hatching in futurity ; but , having once 32 COWLEY .
Page 34
... enjoyed the highest degree of poetical reputation , that I am not willing to dismiss them with unabated censure ; and surely , though the mode of their composition be erroneous , yet many parts deserve at 34 COWLEY .
... enjoyed the highest degree of poetical reputation , that I am not willing to dismiss them with unabated censure ; and surely , though the mode of their composition be erroneous , yet many parts deserve at 34 COWLEY .
Page 36
... indisposed to the reception of poetical embellishments , the writer brought little that could reconcile impatience , or attract curiosity . Nothing can be more disgusting than a narrative spangled with conceits ; 36 COWLEY .
... indisposed to the reception of poetical embellishments , the writer brought little that could reconcile impatience , or attract curiosity . Nothing can be more disgusting than a narrative spangled with conceits ; 36 COWLEY .
Page 37
... poetical delight is description , or the power of presenting pictures to the mind . Cowley gives inferences instead of images , and shews not what may be supposed to have been seen , but what thoughts the sight might have suggested ...
... poetical delight is description , or the power of presenting pictures to the mind . Cowley gives inferences instead of images , and shews not what may be supposed to have been seen , but what thoughts the sight might have suggested ...
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