Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 pages |
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... poets would be read and admired when Homer and Virgil were forgotten , " made answer- " And not till then ! " Sir Robert Walpole's definition of the gratitude of place - expectants , that “ it is a lively sense of future favours , " is ...
... poets would be read and admired when Homer and Virgil were forgotten , " made answer- " And not till then ! " Sir Robert Walpole's definition of the gratitude of place - expectants , that “ it is a lively sense of future favours , " is ...
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... poets or wits of the age of James and Charles I. , whose style was adopted and carried to a more daz- zling and fantastic excess by Cowley in the following reign , after which it declined , and gave place almost entirely to the poetry ...
... poets or wits of the age of James and Charles I. , whose style was adopted and carried to a more daz- zling and fantastic excess by Cowley in the following reign , after which it declined , and gave place almost entirely to the poetry ...
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... . He thus notices the circumstance of his wearing his late wife's hair about his arm , in a little poem which is called the Funeral : " Whoever comes to shroud me , do not harm 58 [ LECTURE III . ⚫ON COWLEY , BUTLER , ETC.
... . He thus notices the circumstance of his wearing his late wife's hair about his arm , in a little poem which is called the Funeral : " Whoever comes to shroud me , do not harm 58 [ LECTURE III . ⚫ON COWLEY , BUTLER , ETC.
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... poem on the Soul , and of one on Dancing . In both he shows great ingenuity , and some- times terseness and vigour . In the last of these two poems his fancy pirouettes in a very lively and agreeable manner , but some- thing too much in ...
... poem on the Soul , and of one on Dancing . In both he shows great ingenuity , and some- times terseness and vigour . In the last of these two poems his fancy pirouettes in a very lively and agreeable manner , but some- thing too much in ...
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... poem . Davenant , who was poet - laureate to Charles II . , wrote several masques and plays which were well received in his time , but have not come down with equal ap- plause to us . Marvel ( on whom I have already bestowed such praise ...
... poem . Davenant , who was poet - laureate to Charles II . , wrote several masques and plays which were well received in his time , but have not come down with equal ap- plause to us . Marvel ( on whom I have already bestowed such praise ...
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