The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their WorksG. Clark and son, 1847 - 644 pàgines |
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... expression , from a secretary of the present time , would be considered as merely ludicrous , or at most as an ostentatious dis- play of scholarship ; but the manners of that time were so tinged with superstition , that I cannot but ...
... expression , from a secretary of the present time , would be considered as merely ludicrous , or at most as an ostentatious dis- play of scholarship ; but the manners of that time were so tinged with superstition , that I cannot but ...
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... expression , but useful to those who know their value ; and such as , when they are expanded to perspicuity , and polished to elegance , may give lustre to works which have more propriety though less copiousness of sentiment . This kind ...
... expression , but useful to those who know their value ; and such as , when they are expanded to perspicuity , and polished to elegance , may give lustre to works which have more propriety though less copiousness of sentiment . This kind ...
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... expressions were sometimes grossly absurd , and such as no figures or license can reconcile to the understand- ing . A Lover neither dead nor alive : Then down I laid my head Down on cold earth ; and for a while was dead , And my freed ...
... expressions were sometimes grossly absurd , and such as no figures or license can reconcile to the understand- ing . A Lover neither dead nor alive : Then down I laid my head Down on cold earth ; and for a while was dead , And my freed ...
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... coronets t Rank , sweaty froth thy mistress ' brow defiles . DONNE . Their expressions sometimes raise horror , when they intend per haps to be pathetic : As men in hell are from diseases free , So 24 LIVES OF THE PORTS :
... coronets t Rank , sweaty froth thy mistress ' brow defiles . DONNE . Their expressions sometimes raise horror , when they intend per haps to be pathetic : As men in hell are from diseases free , So 24 LIVES OF THE PORTS :
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... expression , such varied similitude , such a succession of images , and such a dance of words , it would be in vain to expect , except from Cowley . His strength always appears in his agility ; his volatility is not the flutter of a ...
... expression , such varied similitude , such a succession of images , and such a dance of words , it would be in vain to expect , except from Cowley . His strength always appears in his agility ; his volatility is not the flutter of a ...
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