The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1Nichols and Son, 1801 - 588 pàgines |
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Pàgina 6
... once , and then never had refolution to tell his paffion . This confideration cannot but abate , in fome measure , the reader's esteem for the work and the author . To love excellence is natural ; it is na- tural likewife for the lover ...
... once , and then never had refolution to tell his paffion . This confideration cannot but abate , in fome measure , the reader's esteem for the work and the author . To love excellence is natural ; it is na- tural likewife for the lover ...
Pàgina 19
... once natural and new , that which , though not obvious , is , upon its firft production , acknowledged to be just ; if it be that which he that never found it wonders how he miffed ; to wit of this kind the metaphyfical poets have ...
... once natural and new , that which , though not obvious , is , upon its firft production , acknowledged to be just ; if it be that which he that never found it wonders how he miffed ; to wit of this kind the metaphyfical poets have ...
Pàgina 20
... once fills the whole mind , and of which the first effect is fudden aftonishment , and the fecond ra- tional admiration . Sublimity is produced by ag gregation , and littleness by difperfion . Great thoughts are always general , and ...
... once fills the whole mind , and of which the first effect is fudden aftonishment , and the fecond ra- tional admiration . Sublimity is produced by ag gregation , and littleness by difperfion . Great thoughts are always general , and ...
Pàgina 31
... Once dead , how can it be , Death fhould a thing so pleasant seem to thee , That thou fhould'ft come to live it o'er again in me ? A Lover's heart , a hand grenado : Wo to her ftubborn heart , if once mine come Into the felf fame room ...
... Once dead , how can it be , Death fhould a thing so pleasant seem to thee , That thou fhould'ft come to live it o'er again in me ? A Lover's heart , a hand grenado : Wo to her ftubborn heart , if once mine come Into the felf fame room ...
Pàgina 47
... once an egg in his mind , he cannot forbear to fhew us that he knows what an egg contains : Thou into the close nefts of Time doft peep , And there with piercing eye Through the firm shell and the thick white doft fpy Years to come a ...
... once an egg in his mind , he cannot forbear to fhew us that he knows what an egg contains : Thou into the close nefts of Time doft peep , And there with piercing eye Through the firm shell and the thick white doft fpy Years to come a ...
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