The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their WorksG. Clark and son, 1847 - 644 pàgines |
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... lines than in the cast of his sentiments . When their reputation was high , they had undoubtedly more imitators than time has left behind . Their immediate successors , can be said to remain , were Suckling , of whom any remembrance ...
... lines than in the cast of his sentiments . When their reputation was high , they had undoubtedly more imitators than time has left behind . Their immediate successors , can be said to remain , were Suckling , of whom any remembrance ...
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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 , Africa , and an Asia , And quickly make that which was nothing all . So doth each tear , Which thee doth wear ...
... lines are not easily understood they may be read again . On a round ball , A workman that hath copies by can lay An Europe , Africa , and an Asia , And quickly make that which was nothing all . So doth each tear , Which thee doth wear ...
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... lines there grows ; Here buds an L , and there a B , Here sprouts 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 inquire whether their allusions were to ...
... lines there grows ; Here buds an L , and there a B , Here sprouts 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 inquire whether their allusions were to ...
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... lines in swearing by the Castalian Stream We are told of Theron's bounty , with a hint that he had enemies which Cowley thus enlarges in rhyming prose : But in this thankless world the giver Is envied even by the receiver ; ' Tis now ...
... lines in swearing by the Castalian Stream We are told of Theron's bounty , with a hint that he had enemies which Cowley thus enlarges in rhyming prose : But in this thankless world the giver Is envied even by the receiver ; ' Tis now ...
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... lines , and uniform structure of the stanzas , by which the voice is regulated , and the memory relieved . If the Pindaric style be , what Cowley thinks it , the highest and noblest kind of writing in verse , it can be adapted only to ...
... lines , and uniform structure of the stanzas , by which the voice is regulated , and the memory relieved . If the Pindaric style be , what Cowley thinks it , the highest and noblest kind of writing in verse , it can be adapted only to ...
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