The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their WorksG. Clark and son, 1847 - 644 pàgines |
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... beauties of Flowers , in various measures ; and in the fifth and sixth , the uses of Trees , in heroic numbers . At the same time were produced , from the same university , the two great poets , Cowley and Milton , of dissimilar genius ...
... beauties of Flowers , in various measures ; and in the fifth and sixth , the uses of Trees , in heroic numbers . At the same time were produced , from the same university , the two great poets , Cowley and Milton , of dissimilar genius ...
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... beauties which common authors may justly think not only above their attainment , but above their ambition . To the Miscellanies succeed the Anacreontiques , or paraphristical translations of some little poems , which pass , however ...
... beauties which common authors may justly think not only above their attainment , but above their ambition . To the Miscellanies succeed the Anacreontiques , or paraphristical translations of some little poems , which pass , however ...
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... beauties and faults , and nearly in the same proportion . They are written with exuberance of wit , and with copiousness of learning ; and it is truly asserted by Sprat , that the plenitude of the writer's knowledge flows in upon his ...
... beauties and faults , and nearly in the same proportion . They are written with exuberance of wit , and with copiousness of learning ; and it is truly asserted by Sprat , that the plenitude of the writer's knowledge flows in upon his ...
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... beauties and faults of Cowley : Omnibus mundi Dominator horis Aptat urgendas per inane pennas , Pars adhuc nido latet , & futuros Crescit in annos . Cowley , whatever was his subject , seems to have been carried , by a kind of destiny ...
... beauties and faults of Cowley : Omnibus mundi Dominator horis Aptat urgendas per inane pennas , Pars adhuc nido latet , & futuros Crescit in annos . Cowley , whatever was his subject , seems to have been carried , by a kind of destiny ...
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... beauties ' deepest red ; An harmless flatt'ring meteor shone for hair , And fell adown his shoulders with loose care ; He cuts out a silk mantle from the skies , Where the most sprightly azure pleas'd the eyes ; This he with starry ...
... beauties ' deepest red ; An harmless flatt'ring meteor shone for hair , And fell adown his shoulders with loose care ; He cuts out a silk mantle from the skies , Where the most sprightly azure pleas'd the eyes ; This he with starry ...
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