Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-DrydenG. Olms, 1968 - 440 páginas |
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... common subject , which poets have contended to adorn . Dryden's Night is well known * ; Donne's is as follows : ' Thou seest me here at midnight ; now all rest , Time's dead low - water ; when all minds divest To - morrow's business ...
... common subject , which poets have contended to adorn . Dryden's Night is well known * ; Donne's is as follows : ' Thou seest me here at midnight ; now all rest , Time's dead low - water ; when all minds divest To - morrow's business ...
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... common train of Nature , are eagerly caught by the lovers of a wonder . Yet something of this inequality happens to every man in every mode of exertion , manual or mental . The mechanick cannot handle his hammer and his file at all ...
... common train of Nature , are eagerly caught by the lovers of a wonder . Yet something of this inequality happens to every man in every mode of exertion , manual or mental . The mechanick cannot handle his hammer and his file at all ...
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... common notions and equal to common expectations ; such a state as affords plenty and tranquillity , without exclusion of intellectual pleasures . Per- haps no composition in our language has been oftener perused than Pomfret's Choice 3 ...
... common notions and equal to common expectations ; such a state as affords plenty and tranquillity , without exclusion of intellectual pleasures . Per- haps no composition in our language has been oftener perused than Pomfret's Choice 3 ...
Contenido
AUTHORS ADVERTISEMENT TO THE THIRD EDITION | 3 |
LIVES OF THE POETS | 9 |
DENHAM | 17 |
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Absalom and Achitophel acted ADDISON Aeneid afterwards Anec Ante appears Aubrey Biog blank verse Boswell's Johnson Brief Lives Burnet Butler censure character Charles Clarendon Cowley Cowley's criticism Cromwell daughter death Denham describes Diary Dorset Duke Dunciad Earl edition elegance English Essay father friends genius heroick Hist honour Horace HORACE WALPOLE Hudibras images imitation John John Milton King labour language Latin learned Letters lines Lord Lycidas Malone Malone's Dryden Masson's Milton Milton's Poems mind Misc nature never NIHIL numbers Otway Oxon Paradise Lost Paradise Regained parliament passage perhaps Philips play poetical poetry POPE Pope's praise Preface printed prose publick published quoted rhyme Rochester satire says seems shew Sprat stanza thing thou thought tion Tonson tragedy translation viii Virgil Waller Warton words write written wrote