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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... forming descriptions , they looked out , not for images , but for conceits . Night has been a 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 ...
... forming descriptions , they looked out , not for images , but for conceits . Night has been a 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 ...
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... formed by nature for one kind of writing more than for another , his power seems to have been greatest in the familiar and the festive . The next class of his poems is called " The Mis- tress , " of which it is not necessary to select ...
... formed by nature for one kind of writing more than for another , his power seems to have been greatest in the familiar and the festive . The next class of his poems is called " The Mis- tress , " of which it is not necessary to select ...
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... the firm shell and the thick white , dost spy Years to come a - forming lie , Close in their sacred fecundine sleep . The same thought is more generally , and there- fore more poetically expressed by Casimir , a writer who 46 COWLEY .
... the firm shell and the thick white , dost spy Years to come a - forming lie , Close in their sacred fecundine sleep . The same thought is more generally , and there- fore more poetically expressed by Casimir , a writer who 46 COWLEY .
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... formed rather from the Odyssey than the Iliad : and many artificers of diversification are em- ployed , with the skill of a man acquainted with the best models . The past is recalled by narration , and the future anticipated by vision ...
... formed rather from the Odyssey than the Iliad : and many artificers of diversification are em- ployed , with the skill of a man acquainted with the best models . The past is recalled by narration , and the future anticipated by vision ...
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... formed of monosyllables ; but yet they are sometimes sweet and sonorous . He says of the Messiah , Round the whole earth his dreaded name shall sound , And reach to worlds that must not yet be found . In another place , of David , Yet ...
... formed of monosyllables ; but yet they are sometimes sweet and sonorous . He says of the Messiah , Round the whole earth his dreaded name shall sound , And reach to worlds that must not yet be found . In another place , of David , Yet ...
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