Critical Essays on Some of the Poems of Several English PoetsJames Phillips, 1785 - 386 pages |
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... any degree , from the ge- neral merit of those four celebrated lines . He has skilfully defended Milton's LYCIDAS against fome of the Doctor's objec- objections , and has well apologized for the profufion of lxxxii THE LIFE OF.
... any degree , from the ge- neral merit of those four celebrated lines . He has skilfully defended Milton's LYCIDAS against fome of the Doctor's objec- objections , and has well apologized for the profufion of lxxxii THE LIFE OF.
Page xci
... LYCIDAS , by Milton ESSAY III . Page I - 37 WINDSOR FOREST , by Pope - 65 ESSAY IV . GRONGAR HILL , by Dyer ESSAY 97 v . 113 VI . RUINS OF ROME , the fame ESSAY ORIENTAL ECLOGUES , by Collins 153 ESSAY VII . CHURCH YARD ELEGY , by Gray ...
... LYCIDAS , by Milton ESSAY III . Page I - 37 WINDSOR FOREST , by Pope - 65 ESSAY IV . GRONGAR HILL , by Dyer ESSAY 97 v . 113 VI . RUINS OF ROME , the fame ESSAY ORIENTAL ECLOGUES , by Collins 153 ESSAY VII . CHURCH YARD ELEGY , by Gray ...
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... Lycidas , I am happy to coincide with the judgment of most of my predeceffors . Between the two performances there is indeed an effential difference . Den- ham's is dull ; Milton's is fpirited : the thoughts of the former are mean , and ...
... Lycidas , I am happy to coincide with the judgment of most of my predeceffors . Between the two performances there is indeed an effential difference . Den- ham's is dull ; Milton's is fpirited : the thoughts of the former are mean , and ...
Page 38
... Lycidas , widely diffented from it . His cenfure is indeed fufficiently fevere , He ob- jects to the form , as that of a paftoral , eafy , vulgar , and disgusting . He afferts , that whatever images it can fupply , are long ago ...
... Lycidas , widely diffented from it . His cenfure is indeed fufficiently fevere , He ob- jects to the form , as that of a paftoral , eafy , vulgar , and disgusting . He afferts , that whatever images it can fupply , are long ago ...
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... Lycidas cannot be confidered as an effufion of real grief , he feems to have mistaken the nature of the poem . There is an anxiety from apprehenfion of lofing a beloved object ; and there is a grief immediately fubfe- quent to its ...
... Lycidas cannot be confidered as an effufion of real grief , he feems to have mistaken the nature of the poem . There is an anxiety from apprehenfion of lofing a beloved object ; and there is a grief immediately fubfe- quent to its ...
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