The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their WorksG. Clark and son, 1847 - 644 pàgines |
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... natural desire of man to propagate a wonder . It is surely very difficult to tell any thing as it was heard , when ... Nature for literary polite- ness . But in the author's own honest relation , the marvel vanishes : he was , he says ...
... natural desire of man to propagate a wonder . It is surely very difficult to tell any thing as it was heard , when ... Nature for literary polite- ness . But in the author's own honest relation , the marvel vanishes : he was , he says ...
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... nature to the choice of man , has its changes and fashions , and at different times takes dif- ferent forms . About the beginning of the seventeenth century , appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets ; of ...
... nature to the choice of man , has its changes and fashions , and at different times takes dif- ferent forms . About the beginning of the seventeenth century , appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets ; of ...
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... nature and art are ransacked for illus trations , comparisons , and allusions ; their learning instructs , and their subtlety surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his im- provement dearly bought , and , though he sometimes admires ...
... nature and art are ransacked for illus trations , comparisons , and allusions ; their learning instructs , and their subtlety surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his im- provement dearly bought , and , though he sometimes admires ...
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... nature is forbid , The love of different women is , in geographical poetry , compared to travels through different countries ; Hast thou not found each woman's breast ( The land where thou hast travelled ) Either by savages possest , Or ...
... nature is forbid , The love of different women is , in geographical poetry , compared to travels through different countries ; Hast thou not found each woman's breast ( The land where thou hast travelled ) Either by savages possest , Or ...
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... nature's fall : COWLEY . Then from those wombs of stars , the Bride's bright eyes , At every glance a constellation flies , And sowes the court with stars , and doth prevent , In light and power the all - eyed firmament : First her eye ...
... nature's fall : COWLEY . Then from those wombs of stars , the Bride's bright eyes , At every glance a constellation flies , And sowes the court with stars , and doth prevent , In light and power the all - eyed firmament : First her eye ...
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