The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volumen1W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... character ; but I have been led beyond my intention , I hope , by the honest desire of giving useful pleasure . In this minute kind of history , the succession of facts is not easily discovered ; and I am not without suspicion that some ...
... character ; but I have been led beyond my intention , I hope , by the honest desire of giving useful pleasure . In this minute kind of history , the succession of facts is not easily discovered ; and I am not without suspicion that some ...
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... character , not the life , of Cowley ; for he writes with so little detail , that scarcely any thing is dis- tinctly known , but all is shewn confused and enlarged through the mist of panegyric . ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in the year 1618 ...
... character , not the life , of Cowley ; for he writes with so little detail , that scarcely any thing is dis- tinctly known , but all is shewn confused and enlarged through the mist of panegyric . ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in the year 1618 ...
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... characters by which his heart was divided , he in reality was in love but once , and then never had resolution to tell his passion . This consideration cannot but abate , in some measure , the reader's esteem for the work and the author ...
... characters by which his heart was divided , he in reality was in love but once , and then never had resolution to tell his passion . This consideration cannot but abate , in some measure , the reader's esteem for the work and the author ...
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... character from crimes which he was never within the possibility of committing , differs only , by the infrequency of his folly , from him who praises beauty which he never saw ; complains of jealousy which he never felt ; supposes ...
... character from crimes which he was never within the possibility of committing , differs only , by the infrequency of his folly , from him who praises beauty which he never saw ; complains of jealousy which he never felt ; supposes ...
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... character of physician ; still , according to Sprat , with intention " to dissemble the main design of his coming over ; " and , as mr . Wood relates , " complying with the men then in power , ( which was much taken notice of by the ...
... character of physician ; still , according to Sprat , with intention " to dissemble the main design of his coming over ; " and , as mr . Wood relates , " complying with the men then in power , ( which was much taken notice of by the ...
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Absalom and Achitophel Addison admiration Æneid afterwards appears beauties better blank verse called Cato censure character Charles Dryden compositions considered Cowley criticism death delight diction diligence Dryden duke earl elegance English English poetry Euripides excellence fancy favour friends genius georgic honour Hudibras images imagination imitation Jacob Tonson John Dryden kind king known labour lady language Latin learning less lines lived lord lord Conway ment Milton mind nature never NIHIL numbers observed opinion Paradise Lost passions perhaps Philips Pindar play pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope pounds praise preface produced published racter reader reason remarks reputation rhyme satire says seems seldom sent sentiments shew shewn sometimes Sprat supposed Syphax Tatler thing thou thought tion told tragedy translation verses versification Virgil virtue Waller whigs words write written wrote