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" In the sonnets of Surrey, we are surprised to find nothing of that metaphysical cast which marks the Italian poets, his supposed masters, especially Petrarch. Surrey's sentiments are for the most part natural and unaffected ; arising from his own feelings,... "
The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper - Page 315
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The General Biographical Dictionary:: Containing an Historical and Critical ...

Biography - 1814 - 538 pages
...cast which marks the Italian poets bin supposed masters, especially Petrarch. " Surrey's sentiment are for the most part natural and unaffected ; arising...learned allusions, or elaborate conceits. If our author copies Petrarch, it is Petrarch's better manner ; when he descends from his Platonic abstractions,...
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The General Biographical Dictionary:: Containing an Historical and Critical ...

Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 540 pages
...poetry, Mr. Warton finds nothing in his works of that metaphysical cast which marks the Italian poets hit supposed masters, especially Petrarch. " Surrey's...by the present circumstances. His poetry is alike unemharrassed by learned allusions, or elaborate conceits. If our author copies Petrarch, it is Petrarch's...
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The General Biographical Dictionary, Volume 18

Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 540 pages
...that while all his hiographers send him to Italy to study its poetry, Mr. Warton finds nothing in his works of that metaphysical cast which marks the Italian...supposed masters, especially Petrarch. " Surrey's* sentiriients are for the most part natural and unaffected ; arising' from his own feelings, and dictated...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 1

Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 606 pages
...History of Poetry.') " In the Sonnets of Surrey," observes Warton, " we are surprised to find nothing of that metaphysical cast, which marks the Italian...poetry is alike unembarrassed by learned allusions, and elaborate conceits. If he copies Petrarch, it is Petrarch's best manner, where he descends from...
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The British Essayists: Knox's essays

James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 324 pages
...cast which marks the Italian poets, his supposed wasters, especially Petrarch. Surrey's sentiment* are for the most part natural and unaffected, arising...learned allusions or elaborate conceits. If our author copies Petrarch, it is Petrarch's better manner, when he descends from his Platonic abstractions, his...
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Essays, Moral and Literary, Volume 2

Vicesimus Knox - 1821 - 316 pages
...his Laura. " In the sonnets of Surrey," says Mr. Warton, " we are surprised to find nothing of the metaphysical cast which marks the Italian poets, his...learned allusions or elaborate conceits. If our author copies Petrarch, it is Petrarch's better manner, when he descends from his Platonic abstractions, his...
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The British Essayists: Knox's essays

James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 314 pages
...In the sonnets of Surrey," says Mr. Warton, " we are surprised to find nothing of the metaphysi cal cast which marks the Italian poets, his supposed masters,...learned allusions or elaborate conceits. If our author copies Petrarch, it is Petrarch's better manner when he descends from his Platonic abstractions, his...
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The Works of Vicesimus Knox, D.D.: With a Biographical Preface, Volume 1

Vicesimus Knox - Christian literature - 1824 - 606 pages
...his Laura. " In the sonnets of Surrey," says Mr. Warton, " we are surprised to find nothing of the metaphysical cast which marks the Italian poets, his...learned allusions, or elaborate conceits. If our author copies Petrarch, it is Petrarch's better manner, when he descends from his Platonic abstractions, his...
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The History of English Poetry,: From the Close of the Eleventh to ..., Volume 3

Thomas Warton - English poetry - 1824 - 488 pages
...resumed, till late in the reign of Elisabeth *. In the sonnets of Surrey, we are surprised to find nothing of that metaphysical cast which marks the Italian...feelings, and dictated by the present circumstances f. His poetry is alike unembarrassed by learned allusions, or elaborate conceits. If our author copies...
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The Poems of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

Henry Howard Earl of Surrey - Poets, English - 1831 - 280 pages
...master Francis Petrarcha. Warton observes : " In the sonnets of Surrey, we are surprised to find nothing of that metaphysical cast which marks the Italian...learned allusions, or elaborate conceits. If our author copies Petrarch, it is Petrarch's better manner : when he descends from his Platonic abstractions,...
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