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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... lines than in the cast of his sentiments . When their reputation was high , they had un- doubtedly more imitators than time has left behind . Their immediate successors , of whom any remem- brance can be said to remain , were Suckling ...
... lines than in the cast of his sentiments . When their reputation was high , they had un- doubtedly more imitators than time has left behind . Their immediate successors , of whom any remem- brance can be said to remain , were Suckling ...
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... what can be done or said . Though the following lines of Donne , on the last night of the year , have something in them too scholastic , they are not inelegant : This twilight of two years , not past nor next 22 COWLEY .
... what can be done or said . Though the following lines of Donne , on the last night of the year , have something in them too scholastic , they are not inelegant : This twilight of two years , not past nor next 22 COWLEY .
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... lines are not easily understood , they may be read again : On a round ball A workman , that hath copies by , can lay An Europe , Afric , and an Asia , And quickly make that which was nothing , all . So doth each tear , Which thee doth ...
... lines are not easily understood , they may be read again : On a round ball A workman , that hath copies by , can lay An Europe , Afric , and an Asia , And quickly make that which was nothing , all . So doth each tear , Which thee doth ...
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... lines so many remote ideas could be brought together ? Since ' tis my doom , love's undershrieve , Why this reprieve ? Why doth my she advowson fly Incumbency ? To sell thyself dost thou intend By candles end , And hold the contrast ...
... lines so many remote ideas could be brought together ? Since ' tis my doom , love's undershrieve , Why this reprieve ? Why doth my she advowson fly Incumbency ? To sell thyself dost thou intend By candles end , And hold the contrast ...
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... lines there grows : Here buds an L , and there a B , Here spouts a V , and there a T , And all the flourishing letters stand in rows . COWLEY . As they sought only for novelty , they did not much enquire whether their allusions were to ...
... lines there grows : Here buds an L , and there a B , Here spouts a V , and there a T , And all the flourishing letters stand in rows . COWLEY . As they sought only for novelty , they did not much enquire whether their allusions were to ...
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