The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their WorksG. Clark and son, 1847 - 644 pàgines |
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... original import means exility of particles , is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinction . Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatness : for great things cannot have escaped ...
... original import means exility of particles , is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinction . Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatness : for great things cannot have escaped ...
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... original sin , Such charms thy beauty wears as might Desires in dying confest saints excite . Thou with strange adultery Dost in each breast a brothel keep ; Awake , all men do lust for thee , And some enjoy thee when they sleep . The ...
... original sin , Such charms thy beauty wears as might Desires in dying confest saints excite . Thou with strange adultery Dost in each breast a brothel keep ; Awake , all men do lust for thee , And some enjoy thee when they sleep . The ...
Pàgina 30
... original new moon , her tender forehead and her horns , is superadded by his paraphrast , who has many other plays of words and fancy unsuitable to the original , as , The table , free for ev'ry guest , No doubt will thee admit , And ...
... original new moon , her tender forehead and her horns , is superadded by his paraphrast , who has many other plays of words and fancy unsuitable to the original , as , The table , free for ev'ry guest , No doubt will thee admit , And ...
Pàgina 31
... original than the secondary sense , more upon that from which the illustration is drawn than that to which it is applied . Of this we have a very eminent example , in the ode intituled The Muse , who goes to take the air in an ...
... original than the secondary sense , more upon that from which the illustration is drawn than that to which it is applied . Of this we have a very eminent example , in the ode intituled The Muse , who goes to take the air in an ...
Pàgina 47
... original author . He seems to have been , at least among us , the author of a species of composition that may be de- nominated local poetry , of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape , to be poetically described ...
... original author . He seems to have been , at least among us , the author of a species of composition that may be de- nominated local poetry , of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape , to be poetically described ...
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