The lives of the most eminent English poets, with critical observations on their works, Volum 1G. Walker, J. Akerman, E. Edwards, W. Robinson and Sons, Liverpool, E. Thomson, Manchester, J. Noble, Hull, J. Wilson, Berwick, W. Whyte and Company, Edinburgh, and R. Griffin and Company, Glasgow, 1820 |
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... not very much frequented by common readers of poetry . Thus , Cowley on knowledge : The sacred tree ' midst the fair orchard grew ; The phoenix truth did on it rest , And built his perfum'd nest , That right Propherian tree COWLEY . 21.
... not very much frequented by common readers of poetry . Thus , Cowley on knowledge : The sacred tree ' midst the fair orchard grew ; The phoenix truth did on it rest , And built his perfum'd nest , That right Propherian tree COWLEY . 21.
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... common topic , the danger of procrastination , is thus illustrated : That which I should have begun In my youth's morning , now late must be done ; And I , as giddy travellers must do , Which stray or sleep all day , and having lost ...
... common topic , the danger of procrastination , is thus illustrated : That which I should have begun In my youth's morning , now late must be done ; And I , as giddy travellers must do , Which stray or sleep all day , and having lost ...
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... common subject , which poets have contended to adorn . Dryden's Night is well known ; Donne's is as follows : Thou seest me here at midnight , now all rest : Time's dead low - water ; when all minds divest To - morrow's business ; when ...
... common subject , which poets have contended to adorn . Dryden's Night is well known ; Donne's is as follows : Thou seest me here at midnight , now all rest : Time's dead low - water ; when all minds divest To - morrow's business ; when ...
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... common subjects , often unne- cessarily and unpoetically subtile ; yet , where scho- lastic speculation can be properly admitted , their copiousness and acuteness may justly be admired . What Cowley has written upon hope shews an un ...
... common subjects , often unne- cessarily and unpoetically subtile ; yet , where scho- lastic speculation can be properly admitted , their copiousness and acuteness may justly be admired . What Cowley has written upon hope shews an un ...
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... common authors may justly think not only above their attainment , but above their ambition . To the Miscellanies succeed the Anacreontiques , or paraphrastical translations of some little poems , which pass , however justly , under the ...
... common authors may justly think not only above their attainment , but above their ambition . To the Miscellanies succeed the Anacreontiques , or paraphrastical translations of some little poems , which pass , however justly , under the ...
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