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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... lights outshine On Anacreon continuing a lover in his old age : Love was with thy life entwin'd , Close as heat with fire is join'd ; A powerful brand prescrib'd the date Of thine , like Meleager's fate . Th ' antiperistasis of age More ...
... lights outshine On Anacreon continuing a lover in his old age : Love was with thy life entwin'd , Close as heat with fire is join'd ; A powerful brand prescrib'd the date Of thine , like Meleager's fate . Th ' antiperistasis of age More ...
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... light to his sphere , Or each is both , and all , and so They unto one another nothing owe . Donne . Who but Donne would have thought that a good man is a telescope ? Though God be our true glass through which we see All , since the ...
... light to his sphere , Or each is both , and all , and so They unto one another nothing owe . Donne . Who but Donne would have thought that a good man is a telescope ? Though God be our true glass through which we see All , since the ...
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... light that treacherous fishers shew , And all with as much ease might taken be , As she at first took me ; For ne'er did light so clear Among the waves appear , Though every night the sun himself set there . COWLEY . The poetical effect ...
... light that treacherous fishers shew , And all with as much ease might taken be , As she at first took me ; For ne'er did light so clear Among the waves appear , Though every night the sun himself set there . COWLEY . The poetical effect ...
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... light ? or would have store Of both ? ' tis here : and what can suns give more ? Nay , what's the sun , but in a different name , A coal - pit rampant , or a mine on flame ! Then let this truth reciprocally run , The sun's heaven's ...
... light ? or would have store Of both ? ' tis here : and what can suns give more ? Nay , what's the sun , but in a different name , A coal - pit rampant , or a mine on flame ! Then let this truth reciprocally run , The sun's heaven's ...
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... light and power , the all - ey'd firmament : First her eye kindles other ladies ' eyes , Then from their beams their jewels ' lustres rise : And from their jewels torches do take fire , And all its warmth , and light , and good desire ...
... light and power , the all - ey'd firmament : First her eye kindles other ladies ' eyes , Then from their beams their jewels ' lustres rise : And from their jewels torches do take fire , And all its warmth , and light , and good desire ...
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