Cursory Remarks on Some of the Ancient English Poets: Particularly Milton |
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... circumstance would greatly corroborate them ; as , in the 2d book of the Faery - Queen , the translation from Taffo , in the above description of the garden , is the most labored of all his copies from the Italian poets . Spenfer was a ...
... circumstance would greatly corroborate them ; as , in the 2d book of the Faery - Queen , the translation from Taffo , in the above description of the garden , is the most labored of all his copies from the Italian poets . Spenfer was a ...
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... circumstance is alfo preferved by Mr. Gar- rick . Bonduca is a tragedy , in which the cha- racter of Caratach is excellently drawn . Nor is it fuprizing that the authors should fo well fucceed in writing after the fine model Ta- citus ...
... circumstance is alfo preferved by Mr. Gar- rick . Bonduca is a tragedy , in which the cha- racter of Caratach is excellently drawn . Nor is it fuprizing that the authors should fo well fucceed in writing after the fine model Ta- citus ...
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... circumstances , not at ease only , but poffeffed of an abundant fortune , by education a scholar , a poet by profeffion , and entire master of his time , he had both ability and leisure to read , commend , and patronize the poets , his ...
... circumstances , not at ease only , but poffeffed of an abundant fortune , by education a scholar , a poet by profeffion , and entire master of his time , he had both ability and leisure to read , commend , and patronize the poets , his ...
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... circumstances , under which But- ler wrote , may in fome measure account for , though not excufe this incongruity . The first Part ; in 1663 , was the result of long meditation י י meditation on transactions , that had crowded his 74 ...
... circumstances , under which But- ler wrote , may in fome measure account for , though not excufe this incongruity . The first Part ; in 1663 , was the result of long meditation י י meditation on transactions , that had crowded his 74 ...
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... circumstances had chiefly given cause . Among the wretched ftuff , published by Wycherley , in his folio , in 1704 , is found an epigram , written to Lee , while he was in Bedlam ; and which deserves at least to stand in a better place ...
... circumstances had chiefly given cause . Among the wretched ftuff , published by Wycherley , in his folio , in 1704 , is found an epigram , written to Lee , while he was in Bedlam ; and which deserves at least to stand in a better place ...
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admiration againſt alfo allufion almoſt Beaumont and Fletcher beauties becauſe Ben Jonson beſt beſtowed Bonduca Butler Canterbury Tales cauſe celebrated character Charles Chaucer circumſtance claffical compariſon compofitions conclufion couplet courſe death Denham deſcription diftinguiſhed Don Quixote Drummond Dryden earlieſt eaſy edition Engliſh Eridanus eſtabliſhed excellence expreffion Faery-Queen faid fame faſhion fatire fays fecond feems fentiment fhall fhew firft firſt Fletcher fome fpirit ftand ftanza ftudied fubject fublime fuch fufficient genius greateſt harmony hiftory himſelf Hudibras inftances Italian itſelf juſt King laft language laſt leaſt lines Loft Matcha meaſure Milton moft moſt muſt numbers obfervation occafion paffage paffions perhaps Petrarca pieces play pleaſe poem poet poetical poetry praiſe preſent publiſhed racter reader reaſon ridicule Scanderbeg ſcholar ſeems Shakspeare ſhould ſome Spenfer ſtand ſtudy ſtyle themſelves theſe theſe authors Thierry and Theodoret thofe thoſe tion tranflated uſed verfes verfification verſes Waller whofe whoſe writing wrote
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Page 115 - Pensoroso', amidst all its variety, any more striking, than what Beaumont's second stanza affords, may also be granted. Milton's poem is among those happy works of genius, which leave a reader no choice how his mind shall be affected.