The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... common readers of poetry . Thus Cowley on knowledge : The sacred tree ' midst the fair orchard grew : The phoenix Truth did on it rest , And built his perfum'd nest , That right porphyrian tree which did true logic shew . Each leaf did ...
... common readers of poetry . Thus Cowley on knowledge : The sacred tree ' midst the fair orchard grew : The phoenix Truth did on it rest , And built his perfum'd nest , That right porphyrian tree which did true logic shew . Each leaf did ...
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... common topic , the danger of pro- crastination , is thus illustrated : That which I should have begun In my youth's morning , now late must be done ; And I , as giddy travellers must do , Which stray or sleep all day , and having lost ...
... common topic , the danger of pro- crastination , is thus illustrated : That which I should have begun In my youth's morning , now late must be done ; And I , as giddy travellers must do , Which stray or sleep all day , and having lost ...
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... 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 , now all rest ; Time's dead low - water ; when all minds divest To - morrow's business ; when ...
... 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 , now all rest ; Time's dead low - water ; when all minds divest To - morrow's business ; when ...
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... common authors may justly think not only above their attainment , but above their ambition . To the miscellanies succeed the Anacreontiques , or para- phrastical translations of some little poems , which pass , however justly , under ...
... common authors may justly think not only above their attainment , but above their ambition . To the miscellanies succeed the Anacreontiques , or para- phrastical translations of some little poems , which pass , however justly , under ...
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... common ap- pearances . Cowley says , with a learned allusion to sepul- chral lamps , real or fabulous , " Twixt his right ribs deep pierc'd the furious blade , And open'd wide those secret vessels , where Life's light goes out , when ...
... common ap- pearances . Cowley says , with a learned allusion to sepul- chral lamps , real or fabulous , " Twixt his right ribs deep pierc'd the furious blade , And open'd wide those secret vessels , where Life's light goes out , when ...
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