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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... delight to read , till by feeling the charms of verse , he became , as he relates , irrecoverably a poet . Such are the accidents which , sometimes remem- bered , and perhaps sometimes forgotten , produce . that particular designation ...
... delight to read , till by feeling the charms of verse , he became , as he relates , irrecoverably a poet . Such are the accidents which , sometimes remem- bered , and perhaps sometimes forgotten , produce . that particular designation ...
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... delights of solitary studies , of tem- perate pleasures , and a moderate revenue below the malice and flatteries of fortune . " So differently are things seen ! and so differently are they shewn ! But actions are visible , though mo ...
... delights of solitary studies , of tem- perate pleasures , and a moderate revenue below the malice and flatteries of fortune . " So differently are things seen ! and so differently are they shewn ! But actions are visible , though mo ...
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... delight , Who , whilst thou should'st but taste , devour'st it quite , Thou bring'st us an estate , yet leav'st us poor , By clogging it with legacies before ! The joys which we entire should wed , Come deflower'd virgins to our bed ...
... delight , Who , whilst thou should'st but taste , devour'st it quite , Thou bring'st us an estate , yet leav'st us poor , By clogging it with legacies before ! The joys which we entire should wed , Come deflower'd virgins to our bed ...
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... delight by their desire of exciting admiration . Having thus endeavoured to exhibit a general representation of the style and sentiments of the me- taphysical poets , it is now proper to examine parti- culary the works of Cowley , who ...
... delight by their desire of exciting admiration . Having thus endeavoured to exhibit a general representation of the style and sentiments of the me- taphysical poets , it is now proper to examine parti- culary the works of Cowley , who ...
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... delighted in it , as much as if he had invented it ; but , not to mention the ancients , he might have found it full - blown in modern Italy , Thus Sannazaro : Aspice quam variis distringar Vesbia curis ! Uror , et COWLEY . 41.
... delighted in it , as much as if he had invented it ; but , not to mention the ancients , he might have found it full - blown in modern Italy , Thus Sannazaro : Aspice quam variis distringar Vesbia curis ! Uror , et COWLEY . 41.
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