Specimens of Modern English Literary CriticismWilliam Tenney Brewster Macmillan, 1925 - 379 páginas |
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... poet whom he treats very severely in detail in some of his critical papers ; and it is rare to meet so neat and ... poetic imagination entitling it , though a history , to rank also among his prose - phantasies . Nor does the remark ...
... poet whom he treats very severely in detail in some of his critical papers ; and it is rare to meet so neat and ... poetic imagination entitling it , though a history , to rank also among his prose - phantasies . Nor does the remark ...
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... poet of original power , we do not certainly know that we have even any wrecks . Of those which pass under his name not merely the authorship , but the era , is very questionable indeed . Plutarch and Lucian , the unlearned reader must ...
... poet of original power , we do not certainly know that we have even any wrecks . Of those which pass under his name not merely the authorship , but the era , is very questionable indeed . Plutarch and Lucian , the unlearned reader must ...
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William Tenney Brewster. III SAMUEL JOHNSON ( 1709-1784 ) THE METAPHYSICAL POETS [ From the Life of Cowley ( 1780 ) in the Lives of the Poets ] COWLEY , like other poets who have written with narrow views , and , instead of tracing ...
William Tenney Brewster. III SAMUEL JOHNSON ( 1709-1784 ) THE METAPHYSICAL POETS [ From the Life of Cowley ( 1780 ) in the Lives of the Poets ] COWLEY , like other poets who have written with narrow views , and , instead of tracing ...
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... poet , nor assume the dignity of a writer , by descriptions copied from descriptions , by imita- tions borrowed from imitations , by traditional imagery and heredi- tary similes , by readiness of rhyme and volubility of syllables . In ...
... poet , nor assume the dignity of a writer , by descriptions copied from descriptions , by imita- tions borrowed from imitations , by traditional imagery and heredi- tary similes , by readiness of rhyme and volubility of syllables . In ...
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... poet ; but , that it may not want its due honour , Cleveland has paralleled it with the sun : The moderate value of our guiltless ore Makes no man atheist , and no woman whore ; Yet why should hallow'd vestals ' sacred shrine Deserve ...
... poet ; but , that it may not want its due honour , Cleveland has paralleled it with the sun : The moderate value of our guiltless ore Makes no man atheist , and no woman whore ; Yet why should hallow'd vestals ' sacred shrine Deserve ...
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