 | English poetry - 1802 - 888 pages
...Cowley, we ' may collect from his denomihat' inghim "the darling of my youth, ' the famous Cowlev-" Pope, at a ' little more than eight years of ' age, was initiated in poetry by ' the perusal of Ogilby 's Homer and ' Sandys's Ovid j and to the latter ' he has himself intimated obliga'... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 518 pages
...his mother's apartment;' and which he had read all over, before he was twelve years old. That Dryden was, in fome degree, fimilarly indebted to Cowley,...eight years of age, was initiated in poetry by the perulal of Ogilby's Homer and Sandys's Ovid ; and to the latter he has himfelf intimated obligations,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...which he had read all over, before he was twelve years old. That Dryden was, in some degree, simu larly indebted to Cowley, we may collect from his denominating...of my youth, the famous Cowley.' Pope, at a little mure than eight years of age, iras initiated in poetry by the perusal of Ogilby's Homer and Sandys's... | |
 | Henry John Todd - 1826 - 458 pages
...which he had read all over, before he was twelve years old. That Dryden was, in some degree, similarly indebted to Cowley, we may collect from his denominating...eight years of age, was initiated in poetry by the perusal of Ogilby's Homer and Sandys's Ovid ; and to the latter he has himself intimated obligations,... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 484 pages
...which he had read all over, before he was twelve years old. That Dryden was, in some degree, similarly indebted to Cowley, we may collect from his denominating...eight years of age, was initiated in poetry by the perusal of Ogilby's Homer and Sandys's Ovid; and to the latter he has himself intimated obligations,... | |
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Cowley found himself to be a poet, or, as he himself tells us, ' was made one,' by the delight he took in Spenser's Fairy Queen, ' which was wont to lay in his mother's apartment ;' and which he had read all over, before he was twelve years old. That... 