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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... shew him to have been above the affectation of unseason- able elegance , and to have known that the business of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetoric . One passage , however , seems not unworthy of some notice ...
... shew him to have been above the affectation of unseason- able elegance , and to have known that the business of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetoric . One passage , however , seems not unworthy of some notice ...
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... shew his loyalty at the hazard of his friend , but by his friend's permission . Of the verses on Oliver's death , in which Wood's narrative seems to imply something encomiastic , there has been no appearance . There is a discourse ...
... shew his loyalty at the hazard of his friend , but by his friend's permission . Of the verses on Oliver's death , in which Wood's narrative seems to imply something encomiastic , there has been no appearance . There is a discourse ...
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... shew their learning was their whole endea- vour : but , unluckily resolving to shew it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ...
... shew their learning was their whole endea- vour : but , unluckily resolving to shew it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ...
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... shew . Each leaf did learned notions give , And the apples were demonstrative : So clear their colour and divine , The very shade they cast did other lights outshine On Anacreon continuing a lover in his old age : Love was with thy life ...
... shew . Each leaf did learned notions give , And the apples were demonstrative : So clear their colour and divine , The very shade they cast did other lights outshine On Anacreon continuing a lover in his old age : Love was with thy life ...
Pàgina 23
... shew'd me you . DONNE . Yet more abstruse and profound is Donne's re- flection upon man as a microcosm : If men be worlds , there is in every one Something to answer in some proportion ; All the world's riches ; and in good men , this ...
... shew'd me you . DONNE . Yet more abstruse and profound is Donne's re- flection upon man as a microcosm : If men be worlds , there is in every one Something to answer in some proportion ; All the world's riches ; and in good men , this ...
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