The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their Works, المجلد 1W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... language have deservedly set him high in the ranks of lite- rature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life , of Cowley ...
... language have deservedly set him high in the ranks of lite- rature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life , of Cowley ...
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... numbers ; " and have given such early proofs , not only of powers of language , but of com- prehension of things , as to more tardy minds seem scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there 8 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... numbers ; " and have given such early proofs , not only of powers of language , but of com- prehension of things , as to more tardy minds seem scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there 8 LIVES OF THE POETS .
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... 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 all the diligence of his 14 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... 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 all the diligence of his 14 LIVES OF THE POETS .
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... language . If , by a more noble and more adequate conception , that be considered as wit which is at once natural and new , that which , though not obvious , is , upon its first produc- tion , acknowledged to be just ; if it be that ...
... language . If , by a more noble and more adequate conception , that be considered as wit which is at once natural and new , that which , though not obvious , is , upon its first produc- tion , acknowledged to be just ; if it be that ...
الصفحة 38
... language continues long the same ; the dialogue of comedy , when it is transcribed from popular manners and real life , is read from age to age with equal pleasure . The artifices of inversion , by which the established order of words ...
... language continues long the same ; the dialogue of comedy , when it is transcribed from popular manners and real life , is read from age to age with equal pleasure . The artifices of inversion , by which the established order of words ...
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