The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1James Sawers, 1818 - 1271 pàgines |
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... equal art Made up the whole again of every part . COWLEY . A coal - pit has not often found its poet : but , that it may not want its due honour , Cleiveland has pa- ralleled it with the sun : The moderate value of our guiltless ore ...
... equal art Made up the whole again of every part . COWLEY . A coal - pit has not often found its poet : but , that it may not want its due honour , Cleiveland has pa- ralleled it with the sun : The moderate value of our guiltless ore ...
Pàgina 41
... equal pleasure . The artifices of inversion , by which the established order of words is changed , or of innovation , by which new words or meanings of words are introduced , is practised , not by those who talk to be understood , but ...
... equal pleasure . The artifices of inversion , by which the established order of words is changed , or of innovation , by which new words or meanings of words are introduced , is practised , not by those who talk to be understood , but ...
Pàgina 46
... equal measure dance ; While the dance lasts , how long soe'er it be , My music's voice shall bear it company ; Till all gentle notes be drown'd In the last trumpet's dreadful sound . After such enthusiasm , who will not lament to find ...
... equal measure dance ; While the dance lasts , how long soe'er it be , My music's voice shall bear it company ; Till all gentle notes be drown'd In the last trumpet's dreadful sound . After such enthusiasm , who will not lament to find ...
Pàgina 62
... equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills , to be the mast Of some great admiral , were but a wand He walked with . His diction was in his own time censured as ne- gligent . He seems not to have known , or not to have ...
... equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills , to be the mast Of some great admiral , were but a wand He walked with . His diction was in his own time censured as ne- gligent . He seems not to have known , or not to have ...
Pàgina 67
... equal : Begin , be bold , and venture to be wise : He , who defers this work from day to day , Does on a river's bank expecting stay Till the whole stream that stopp'd him shall be gone , Which runs , and as it runs , for ever shall run ...
... equal : Begin , be bold , and venture to be wise : He , who defers this work from day to day , Does on a river's bank expecting stay Till the whole stream that stopp'd him shall be gone , Which runs , and as it runs , for ever shall run ...
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