The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... reader's esteem for the work and the author . To love excellence is natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover to solicit reciprocal regard , by an elaborato display of his Barnesii Anacreontem own qualifications . The desire of ...
... reader's esteem for the work and the author . To love excellence is natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover to solicit reciprocal regard , by an elaborato display of his Barnesii Anacreontem own qualifications . The desire of ...
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... reader , far from wonder- ing that he missed them , wonders more frequently by what perverseness of industry they were ever found . But wit , abstracted from its effects upon the hearer , may be more rigorously and philosophically ...
... reader , far from wonder- ing that he missed them , wonders more frequently by what perverseness of industry they were ever found . But wit , abstracted from its effects upon the hearer , may be more rigorously and philosophically ...
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With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. subtlety surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought , and , though he sometimes admires , is seldom pleased . From this account of their compositions ...
With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. subtlety surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought , and , though he sometimes admires , is seldom pleased . From this account of their compositions ...
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... 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 learned ...
... 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 learned ...
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... world , by that impression grow , Till thy tears , mixt with mine , do overflow This world , by waters sent from thee , my heaven , dissolved so . VOL . I. C On reading the following lines , the reader may perhaps COWLEY . 25.
... world , by that impression grow , Till thy tears , mixt with mine , do overflow This world , by waters sent from thee , my heaven , dissolved so . VOL . I. C On reading the following lines , the reader may perhaps COWLEY . 25.
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