The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... shew him to have been above the affectation of unseasonable elegance , and to have known that the business of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetoric . One passage , however , seems not unworthy of some no- tice ...
... shew him to have been above the affectation of unseasonable elegance , and to have known that the business of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetoric . One passage , however , seems not unworthy of some no- tice ...
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... shew their learning was their whole endeavour : but , un- luckily resolving to shew it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry , they only wrote verses , and very often 18 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... shew their learning was their whole endeavour : but , un- luckily resolving to shew it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry , they only wrote verses , and very often 18 LIVES OF THE POETS .
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... shew . Each leaf did learned notions give , And the apples were demonstrative : So clear their colour and divine , The very shade they cast did other lights outshine . On Anacreon continuing a lover in his old age : Love was with thy ...
... shew . Each leaf did learned notions give , And the apples were demonstrative : So clear their colour and divine , The very shade they cast did other lights outshine . On Anacreon continuing a lover in his old age : Love was with thy ...
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... shew , And all with as much ease might taken be , As she at first took me ; For ne'er did light so clear Among the waves appear , Though every night the sun himself set there . COWLEY . The poetical effect of a lover's name upon glass ...
... shew , And all with as much ease might taken be , As she at first took me ; For ne'er did light so clear Among the waves appear , Though every night the sun himself set there . COWLEY . The poetical effect of a lover's name upon glass ...
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... his notes on the Davideis supply , were at that time accessions to English literature , and shew such skill as raises our wish for more examples . The lines from Jersey are a very curious and pleasing 36 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... his notes on the Davideis supply , were at that time accessions to English literature , and shew such skill as raises our wish for more examples . The lines from Jersey are a very curious and pleasing 36 LIVES OF THE POETS .
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