The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2Peter Hill, 1815 |
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... says , No comet need foretel his change drew on , Whose corpse might seem a constellation . Ar the university he does not appear to have been eager of poetical distinction , or to have lavished his early wit either on fictitious ...
... says , No comet need foretel his change drew on , Whose corpse might seem a constellation . Ar the university he does not appear to have been eager of poetical distinction , or to have lavished his early wit either on fictitious ...
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... them as to positive powers . No man scruples to say that dark- ness hinders him from his work ; or that cold has kil- led the plants . Death is also privation ; yet who has made any difficulty of assigning to Death a dart and A 2 DRYDEN .
... them as to positive powers . No man scruples to say that dark- ness hinders him from his work ; or that cold has kil- led the plants . Death is also privation ; yet who has made any difficulty of assigning to Death a dart and A 2 DRYDEN .
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... says he , I found of so quick a fancy , that nothing was proposed to him in which he could not suddenly produce a thought extremely pleasant and surprising ; and those first thoughts of his , contrary to the Latin proverb , were not ...
... says he , I found of so quick a fancy , that nothing was proposed to him in which he could not suddenly produce a thought extremely pleasant and surprising ; and those first thoughts of his , contrary to the Latin proverb , were not ...
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... says , To conclude this act with the most rumbling piece of nonsense spoken yet : 6 To flattering lightning our feign'd smiles conform , Which , back'd with thunder , do but gild a storm . ' . Conform a smile to lightning , make a smile ...
... says , To conclude this act with the most rumbling piece of nonsense spoken yet : 6 To flattering lightning our feign'd smiles conform , Which , back'd with thunder , do but gild a storm . ' . Conform a smile to lightning , make a smile ...
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... say thus : I will make my counterfeit smiles look like a flattering stone - horse , which , being backed with a trooper , does but gild the battle . I am mistaken if nonsense is not here pretty thick sown . Sure the poete writes these ...
... say thus : I will make my counterfeit smiles look like a flattering stone - horse , which , being backed with a trooper , does but gild the battle . I am mistaken if nonsense is not here pretty thick sown . Sure the poete writes these ...
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