The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1James Sawers, 1818 - 1271 pàgines |
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... knowledge may be sometimes found , buried perhaps in grossness of expression , but useful to those who know their value ; and such as , when they are ex- panded to perspicuity and polished to elegance , may give lustre to works which ...
... knowledge may be sometimes found , buried perhaps in grossness of expression , but useful to those who know their value ; and such as , when they are ex- panded to perspicuity and polished to elegance , may give lustre to works which ...
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... 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 notions give , And th ' apples ...
... 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 notions give , And th ' apples ...
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... knowledge in some encomiastic verses : In every thing there naturally grows A balsamum to keep it fresh and new , If ' twere not injur❜d by extrinsique blows ; Your youth and beauty are this balm in you . But you , of learning and ...
... knowledge in some encomiastic verses : In every thing there naturally grows A balsamum to keep it fresh and new , If ' twere not injur❜d by extrinsique blows ; Your youth and beauty are this balm in you . But you , of learning and ...
Pàgina 39
... knowledge ; Dryden could have supplied the knowledge , but not the gaiety . The verses to Davenant , which are vigorously be- gun , and happily concluded , contain some hints of criticism very justly conceived , and happily expres- sed ...
... knowledge ; Dryden could have supplied the knowledge , but not the gaiety . The verses to Davenant , which are vigorously be- gun , and happily concluded , contain some hints of criticism very justly conceived , and happily expres- sed ...
Pàgina 42
... knowledge flows in upon his page , so that the reader is commonly surprised into some improve- ment . But , considered as the verses of a lover , no man that has ever loved will much commend them . They are neither courtly nor pathetic ...
... knowledge flows in upon his page , so that the reader is commonly surprised into some improve- ment . But , considered as the verses of a lover , no man that has ever loved will much commend them . They are neither courtly nor pathetic ...
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