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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... images which may exhibit the gaiety of hope , or the gloominess of despair ; and dresses his imagina- ry Chloris or Phyllis sometimes in flowers fading as her beauty , and sometimes in gems lasting as her virtues . At Paris , as ...
... images which may exhibit the gaiety of hope , or the gloominess of despair ; and dresses his imagina- ry Chloris or Phyllis sometimes in flowers fading as her beauty , and sometimes in gems lasting as her virtues . At Paris , as ...
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... images , or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike . Of wit , thus defined , they have more than enough . The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together ; nature and art are ransacked for illustra ...
... images , or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike . Of wit , thus defined , they have more than enough . The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together ; nature and art are ransacked for illustra ...
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... image into fragments ; and could no more repre- sent , by their slender conceits and laboured particu- larities , the prospects of nature , or the scenes of life , than he who dissects a sun beam with a prism can exhibit the wide ...
... image into fragments ; and could no more repre- sent , by their slender conceits and laboured particu- larities , the prospects of nature , or the scenes of life , than he who dissects a sun beam with a prism can exhibit the wide ...
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... 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 , now all rest : Time's dead low - water ; when ...
... 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 , now all rest : Time's dead low - water ; when ...
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... images , and such a dance of words , it is in vain to expect except from Cowley . His strength always appears in his agility ; his volatility is not the flutter of a light , but the bound of an elastic mind . His levity never leaves his ...
... images , and such a dance of words , it is in vain to expect except from Cowley . His strength always appears in his agility ; his volatility is not the flutter of a light , but the bound of an elastic mind . His levity never leaves his ...
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