The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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... reader's efteem for the work and the author . To love excellence , is natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover to folicit reciprocal regard by an ela- borate display of his own qualifications . The defire of pleafing has in ...
... reader's efteem for the work and the author . To love excellence , is natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover to folicit reciprocal regard by an ela- borate display of his own qualifications . The defire of pleafing has in ...
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... reader , far from wondering that he miffed them , wonders more frequently by what perverfeness of induftry they were ever found . But wit , abftracted from its effects upon the hearer , may be more rigorously and philofophically confi ...
... reader , far from wondering that he miffed them , wonders more frequently by what perverfeness of induftry they were ever found . But wit , abftracted from its effects upon the hearer , may be more rigorously and philofophically confi ...
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... readers of poetry . Thus Cowley on Knowledge : The facred tree ' midft the fair orchard The phoenix Truth did on it reft , And built his perfum'd nest , grew ; That right Porphyrian tree which did true logic shew . Each leaf did learned ...
... readers of poetry . Thus Cowley on Knowledge : The facred tree ' midft the fair orchard The phoenix Truth did on it reft , And built his perfum'd nest , grew ; That right Porphyrian tree which did true logic shew . Each leaf did learned ...
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... reader may perhaps cry out - Confufion worfe confounded . Here lies a fhe fun , and a he moon here , She gives the best light to his fphere , Or each is both , and all , and so They unto one another nothing owe . DONNE . Who but Donne ...
... reader may perhaps cry out - Confufion worfe confounded . Here lies a fhe fun , and a he moon here , She gives the best light to his fphere , Or each is both , and all , and so They unto one another nothing owe . DONNE . Who but Donne ...
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... readers to join with him in his preference of the two favourite odes , which he estimates in his raptures at the value of a kingdom . I will , however , venture to recommend Cowley's first piece , which ought to be infcribed To my Mufe ...
... readers to join with him in his preference of the two favourite odes , which he estimates in his raptures at the value of a kingdom . I will , however , venture to recommend Cowley's first piece , which ought to be infcribed To my Mufe ...
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