The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1T. Longman, B. Law, J. Dodsley, 1794 - 452 pàgines |
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... Nature for literary politenefs . But in the author's own honest relation , the marvel vanishes : he was , he fays , fuch " an enemy to all conftraint , that his " mafter B 2 " master never could prevail on him to " learn COWLEY . 3.
... Nature for literary politenefs . But in the author's own honest relation , the marvel vanishes : he was , he fays , fuch " an enemy to all conftraint , that his " mafter B 2 " master never could prevail on him to " learn COWLEY . 3.
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... natural ; it is natural likewife for the lover to folicit reciprocal regard by an * Barnefii Anacreontem . Dr. J. elaborate F elaborate difplay of his own qualifications . The defire 8 COWLEY ,
... natural ; it is natural likewife for the lover to folicit reciprocal regard by an * Barnefii Anacreontem . Dr. J. elaborate F elaborate difplay of his own qualifications . The defire 8 COWLEY ,
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... nature to the choice of man , has its changes and fashions , and at different times takes different forms . About the beginning of the feventeenth century appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphy- fical fical poets ; of ...
... nature to the choice of man , has its changes and fashions , and at different times takes different forms . About the beginning of the feventeenth century appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphy- fical fical poets ; of ...
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... nature for life ; neither painted the forms of matter ; nor reprefented the operations of intellect . Those however , who deny them to be poets , allow them to be wits . Dryden confeffes of himself and his contemporaries , that they ...
... nature for life ; neither painted the forms of matter ; nor reprefented the operations of intellect . Those however , who deny them to be poets , allow them to be wits . Dryden confeffes of himself and his contemporaries , that they ...
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... natural dignity , and reduces it from ftrength of thought to happiness of language . If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be confidered as Wit which is at once natural and new , that which , though not obvious , is ...
... natural dignity , and reduces it from ftrength of thought to happiness of language . If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be confidered as Wit which is at once natural and new , that which , though not obvious , is ...
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