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... performances of Cowley and Milton be compared ( for May I hold to be fuperior to both ) , the advantage seems to lie on the fide of Cowley . Milton is generally content to exprefs the thoughts of the an- cients in their language ...
... performances of Cowley and Milton be compared ( for May I hold to be fuperior to both ) , the advantage seems to lie on the fide of Cowley . Milton is generally content to exprefs the thoughts of the an- cients in their language ...
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... genius . To fuch a performance Suckling could have brought the gaiety , but not the knowledge ; Dryden could have sup- plied the knowledge , but not the gaiety . The 1 The verfes to Davenant , which are vigo- rously begun COWLEY . 59.
... genius . To fuch a performance Suckling could have brought the gaiety , but not the knowledge ; Dryden could have sup- plied the knowledge , but not the gaiety . The 1 The verfes to Davenant , which are vigo- rously begun COWLEY . 59.
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... performances by their juft value , and has therefore closed his Mifcellanies with the verfes upon Crashaw , which apparently excel all that have gone before them , and in which there are beauties which common authors * Dodfley's ...
... performances by their juft value , and has therefore closed his Mifcellanies with the verfes upon Crashaw , which apparently excel all that have gone before them , and in which there are beauties which common authors * Dodfley's ...
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... " This poem had fuch reputation as to excite the common artifice by which envy degrades excellence . A report was spread , that the performance was not his own , but that he had had bought it of a vicar for forty pounds . DENH A M. 107.
... " This poem had fuch reputation as to excite the common artifice by which envy degrades excellence . A report was spread , that the performance was not his own , but that he had had bought it of a vicar for forty pounds . DENH A M. 107.
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... performance : the numbers are mufical , and the thoughts are just . . : COOPER'S HILL " is the work that con- fers upon him the rank and dignity of an original author . He feems to have been , at least among us , the author of a species ...
... performance : the numbers are mufical , and the thoughts are just . . : COOPER'S HILL " is the work that con- fers upon him the rank and dignity of an original author . He feems to have been , at least among us , the author of a species ...
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The Lives of the English Poets: and a Criticism of Their Work Samuel Johnson Visualização completa - 1795 |
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