LivesA. Miller, 1800 - English poetry |
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Page 30
... writing in verse , it can be adapted only to high and noble subjects ; and it will not be easy to reconcile the poet ... write like Pindar . The rights of antiquity were invaded , and disorder tried to break into the Latin : a poem * on ...
... writing in verse , it can be adapted only to high and noble subjects ; and it will not be easy to reconcile the poet ... write like Pindar . The rights of antiquity were invaded , and disorder tried to break into the Latin : a poem * on ...
Page 31
... write the third part . Epick poems have been left unfinished by Virgil , Statius , Spenser , and Cowley . That we have not the whole Davideis is , however , not much to be regretted ; for in this undertaking Cowley is , tacitly at least ...
... write the third part . Epick poems have been left unfinished by Virgil , Statius , Spenser , and Cowley . That we have not the whole Davideis is , however , not much to be regretted ; for in this undertaking Cowley is , tacitly at least ...
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... to divert the melancholy of their condition , was sometimes enjoined by his master to write occasional verses ; one of which amusements was probably his VOL . I G odc ode or song upon the Embassy to Poland , by DENHAM . 41.
... to divert the melancholy of their condition , was sometimes enjoined by his master to write occasional verses ; one of which amusements was probably his VOL . I G odc ode or song upon the Embassy to Poland , by DENHAM . 41.
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... writes a cool and plausible answer , in which he endeavours to persuade him that the delay proceeds not from the ... write the Masque of Comus , which was pre- sented at Ludlow , then the residence of the Lord President of Wales , in ...
... writes a cool and plausible answer , in which he endeavours to persuade him that the delay proceeds not from the ... write the Masque of Comus , which was pre- sented at Ludlow , then the residence of the Lord President of Wales , in ...
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... write , he perhaps did only what his con- science dictated ; and if he did not very vigilantly watch the influence of his own passions , and the gradual prevalence of opinions , first willingly admitted , and then habitually indulged ...
... write , he perhaps did only what his con- science dictated ; and if he did not very vigilantly watch the influence of his own passions , and the gradual prevalence of opinions , first willingly admitted , and then habitually indulged ...
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