 ... or elaborate conceits. If our author copies Petrarch, it is Petrarch's better manner : when he descends from his Platonic abstractions, his refinements of passion, his exaggerated compliments, and his play upon opposite sentiments, into a track of...  Annual Register of World Events - Página 1941800Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Edmund Burke - 1800 - 614 páginas
...fentiments, into a track of tendernefi, fimplicity, .and nature. Petrarch would have been a better port had he been a worfe fcholar. Our author's mind was...much overlaid by learning. The following is the poem a> bove mentioned, in which he laments his imprisonment in Windfor-caftle. But it is rather an elegy... | |
 | Thomas Warton - 1781 - 620 páginas
...he defcends from his Platonic abftradtions, his refinements of paflion, his exaggerated compliments, and his play upon oppofite fentiments, into a track...Petrarch would have been a better poet had he been a worle fcholar. Our author's mind was not too much overlaid by learning. The following is the poem abovementioned,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1783 - 408 páginas
...paffion, his exaggerated compliments, and his play upon oppofite fentiments, into a track of tenderneft, fimplicity, and nature. Petrarch would have been a better poet had he been a worfe fcholar. Yet, upon the whole, I fliould as foon think of preferring Surrey to Petrarch, as of preferring a Gothic... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1785 - 442 páginas
...Compliments, and his play upon oppofite fendments, into a track of tendernefs, fimplicity nnd nature. Petrareh would have been a better poet had he been a worfe fcholar. Yet, upon the whole, I fhoulJ as foon think of preferring Surrey to Petrareh, as of peferring a Gothie... | |
 | 1800 - 624 páginas
...exaggerated compliments, and his play upon oppofite fendments, into a track of tendernels, Omplicity, and nature. Petrarch would have been a better poet...mentioned, in which he laments his imprifonment in Windfor-caftle. But it is rather an elegy than a fonuet. .So cruel prifon, how coulde betyde, alas,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1800 - 378 páginas
..., his refinements of paflion , his exaggerated compliments , and his play upon oppofite fentimems , into a track of tendernefs , fimplicity, and nature....have been a better poet had he been a worfe fcholar. Yet, upon the whole, I fliould as foon think of preferring Surrey to Petrarch , as of preferring a... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1803 - 328 páginas
...exaggerated compliments, and his play npon oppofite fentiments, into a track of teai•lernefs, Simplicity, and nature. Petrarch would have been a better poet had he been a worfe fcholar. Yet1, upon the whole, I mould as foon think of preferring Surrey to Petrarch, as of preferring a Gothic... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 740 páginas
...exaggerated compliments, and his play upon opposite sentiments, into a track of tenderness, simplicity, and nature. Petrarch would have been a better poet had he been a worse scholar : our author's mind was not too much) overlaid by learning." The translation of the two... | |
 | 1814 - 538 páginas
...exaggerated compliments, and his play upon opposite sentiments, into a track of tenderness, simplicity, .and nature. Petrarch would have been a better poet had he been a worse scholar. Our author's mind was not too much over-laid by learning." The translation of the two... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 540 páginas
...exaggerated compliments, and his play upon opposite sentiments, into a track of tenderness, simplicity, and nature. Petrarch would have been a better poet had he been a worse scholar. Our author's mind was not too much' over-laid by learning." The translation of the two... | |
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