The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their WorksG. Clark and son, 1847 - 644 pàgines |
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... equal art Made up the whole again of every part . COWLEY . COWLEY . A coal - pit has not often found its poet ; but , that it may not want its due honour , Clieveland has paralleled it with the Sun : The moderate value of our guiltless ...
... equal art Made up the whole again of every part . COWLEY . COWLEY . A coal - pit has not often found its poet ; but , that it may not want its due honour , Clieveland has paralleled it with the Sun : The moderate value of our guiltless ...
Pàgina 28
... same ; the dialogue of comedy , when it is transcribed from popular manners and real life , is read from age to age with equal pleasure . The ar tifices of inversion , by which the established order of 28 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... same ; the dialogue of comedy , when it is transcribed from popular manners and real life , is read from age to age with equal pleasure . The ar tifices of inversion , by which the established order of 28 LIVES OF THE POETS .
Pàgina 31
... equal measure dance ; While the dance lasts , how long soe'er it be , My music's voice shall bear it company ; Till all gentle notes be drown'd In the last trumpet's dreadful sound . After such enthusiasm , who will not lament to find ...
... equal measure dance ; While the dance lasts , how long soe'er it be , My music's voice shall bear it company ; Till all gentle notes be drown'd In the last trumpet's dreadful sound . After such enthusiasm , who will not lament to find ...
Pàgina 40
... equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills , to be the mast Of some great admiral , were but a wand , He walked with , : His diction was , in his own time , censured as negligent . He seems not to have known , or not to have ...
... equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills , to be the mast Of some great admiral , were but a wand , He walked with , : His diction was , in his own time , censured as negligent . He seems not to have known , or not to have ...
Pàgina 42
... equal : Begin , be bold , and venture to be wise : He , who defers this work from day to day ; Does on a river's bank expecting stay Till the whole stream that stopped him shall be gone , Which runs , and as it runs , for ever shall run ...
... equal : Begin , be bold , and venture to be wise : He , who defers this work from day to day ; Does on a river's bank expecting stay Till the whole stream that stopped him shall be gone , Which runs , and as it runs , for ever shall run ...
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