The Lives of the Most Eminent English PoetsWarne, 1872 |
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... forming descriptions , they looked out not for images , but for conceits . Night has been a common subject , which poets have contended to adorn . Dryden's Night is well known ; Donne's is as follows : Thou seest me here at midnight ...
... forming descriptions , they looked out not for images , but for conceits . Night has been a common subject , which poets have contended to adorn . Dryden's Night is well known ; Donne's is as follows : Thou seest me here at midnight ...
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... formed by nature for one kind of writing more than for another , his power seems to have been greatest in the familiar and the festive . The next class of his poems is called the Mistress , of which it is not neces- sary to select any ...
... formed by nature for one kind of writing more than for another , his power seems to have been greatest in the familiar and the festive . The next class of his poems is called the Mistress , of which it is not neces- sary to select any ...
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... forming lie , Close in their sacred fecundine asleep . The same thought is more generally , and therefore more poetically , ex- pressed by Casimir , a writer who has many of the beauties and faults of Cowley : Omnibus mundi Dominator ...
... forming lie , Close in their sacred fecundine asleep . The same thought is more generally , and therefore more poetically , ex- pressed by Casimir , a writer who has many of the beauties and faults of Cowley : Omnibus mundi Dominator ...
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... formed rather from the Odyssey than the Iliad ; and many artifices of diversification are employed , with the skill of a man acquainted with the best models . The past is recalled by narration , and the future anticipated by vision ...
... formed rather from the Odyssey than the Iliad ; and many artifices of diversification are employed , with the skill of a man acquainted with the best models . The past is recalled by narration , and the future anticipated by vision ...
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... formed of monosyllables ; but yet they are some- times sweet and sonorous . He says of the Messiah , Round the whole earth his dreaded name shall sound , And reach to worlds that must not yet be found . In another place , of David , Yet ...
... formed of monosyllables ; but yet they are some- times sweet and sonorous . He says of the Messiah , Round the whole earth his dreaded name shall sound , And reach to worlds that must not yet be found . In another place , of David , Yet ...
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