Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-DrydenOctagon Books, 1967 - 568 páginas |
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Samuel Johnson George Birkbeck Norman Hill. TH COWLEY : HE Life of Cowley , notwithstanding the penury of English 1 biography , has been written by Dr. Sprat , an author whose pregnancy of imagination and elegance of language have ...
Samuel Johnson George Birkbeck Norman Hill. TH COWLEY : HE Life of Cowley , notwithstanding the penury of English 1 biography , has been written by Dr. Sprat , an author whose pregnancy of imagination and elegance of language have ...
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... Cowley . Milton is generally content to express the thoughts of the ancients in their language ; Cowley , without much loss of purity or elegance , accommodates the diction of Rome to his own conceptions ' . At the Restoration , after ...
... Cowley . Milton is generally content to express the thoughts of the ancients in their language ; Cowley , without much loss of purity or elegance , accommodates the diction of Rome to his own conceptions ' . At the Restoration , after ...
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... Cowley certainly errs by introducing pedantry far more frequently than Tasso . I know not , indeed , why they should be compared ; for the resemblance of Cowley's work to Tasso's is only that they both exhibit the agency of celestial ...
... Cowley certainly errs by introducing pedantry far more frequently than Tasso . I know not , indeed , why they should be compared ; for the resemblance of Cowley's work to Tasso's is only that they both exhibit the agency of celestial ...
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