The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2Peter Hill, 1815 |
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... force , Or wind in volumes to their former course : / • A very pretty allusion , contrary to all sense or rea- son . Torrents , I take it , let them wind never so much , can never return to their former course , un- less he can suppose ...
... force , Or wind in volumes to their former course : / • A very pretty allusion , contrary to all sense or rea- son . Torrents , I take it , let them wind never so much , can never return to their former course , un- less he can suppose ...
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... force of understanding , but often depends upon in- quiries which there is no opportunity of making , or is to be fetched from books and pamphlets not always at hand . THE Rehearsal was played in 1671 , and yet it is represented as ...
... force of understanding , but often depends upon in- quiries which there is no opportunity of making , or is to be fetched from books and pamphlets not always at hand . THE Rehearsal was played in 1671 , and yet it is represented as ...
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... force himself upon me for an adver- sary ; I contemn him too much to enter into compe- tition with him . As for the rest of those who have written against me , they are such scoundrels that they deserve not the least notice to be taken ...
... force himself upon me for an adver- sary ; I contemn him too much to enter into compe- tition with him . As for the rest of those who have written against me , they are such scoundrels that they deserve not the least notice to be taken ...
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... forces himself upon our esteem , we cannot refuse him to stand high in his own . Every thing is excused by the play of images , and the spriteliness of expression . Though all is easy , nothing is feeble ; though all seems careless ...
... forces himself upon our esteem , we cannot refuse him to stand high in his own . Every thing is excused by the play of images , and the spriteliness of expression . Though all is easy , nothing is feeble ; though all seems careless ...
Pàgina 76
... force , but not more pains employs . Such is the mighty swiftness of your mind , That , like the Earth's , it leaves our sense behind ; While you so smoothly turn and roll our sphere , That rapid motion does but rest appear . For as in ...
... force , but not more pains employs . Such is the mighty swiftness of your mind , That , like the Earth's , it leaves our sense behind ; While you so smoothly turn and roll our sphere , That rapid motion does but rest appear . For as in ...
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