The lives of the English poetsRivington, 1858 - 414 pages |
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Page 42
... present age , when devotion , perhaps not more fervent , is more delicate . Having produced one passage taken by Cowley from Donne , I will recompense him by another which Milton seems to have borrowed from him . He says of Goliah , His ...
... present age , when devotion , perhaps not more fervent , is more delicate . Having produced one passage taken by Cowley from Donne , I will recompense him by another which Milton seems to have borrowed from him . He says of Goliah , His ...
Page 43
... presents itself to the intellectual eye : and if the first appearance offends , a further knowledge is not often ... present lost ; for they are commonly harsh to modern ears . He has indeed many noble lines , such as the feeble care ...
... presents itself to the intellectual eye : and if the first appearance offends , a further knowledge is not often ... present lost ; for they are commonly harsh to modern ears . He has indeed many noble lines , such as the feeble care ...
Page 44
... present estimation the line that admits them , were , in the time of Cowley , little censured or avoided : how often he used them , and with how bad an effect , at least to our ears , will appear by a passage in which every reader will ...
... present estimation the line that admits them , were , in the time of Cowley , little censured or avoided : how often he used them , and with how bad an effect , at least to our ears , will appear by a passage in which every reader will ...
Page 83
... present form about the time ( 1655 ) when he finished his dispute with the defenders of the King . He long before had promised to adorn his native country by some great performance , while he had yet , perhaps , no settled design , and ...
... present form about the time ( 1655 ) when he finished his dispute with the defenders of the King . He long before had promised to adorn his native country by some great performance , while he had yet , perhaps , no settled design , and ...
Page 89
... present . To read was not then a general amusement ; neither traders , nor often gentlemen , thought themselves disgraced by ignorance . The women had not then aspired to literature , nor was every house supplied with a closet of ...
... present . To read was not then a general amusement ; neither traders , nor often gentlemen , thought themselves disgraced by ignorance . The women had not then aspired to literature , nor was every house supplied with a closet of ...
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