The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their WorksG. Clark and son, 1847 - 644 pàgines |
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... verses on Oliver's death , in which Wood's narrative seems to imply something encomiastic , there has been no appearance . There is a discourse concerning his government , indeed , with verses intermixed , but such as certainly gained ...
... verses on Oliver's death , in which Wood's narrative seems to imply something encomiastic , there has been no appearance . There is a discourse concerning his government , indeed , with verses intermixed , but such as certainly gained ...
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... verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so imperfect , that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables . If the father of criticism has ...
... verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so imperfect , that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables . If the father of criticism has ...
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... verses we have an allusion to a Rabinical opinion concerning Manna : Variety I ask not ; give me one To live perpetually open The person Love does to us fit , Like manna , has the taste of all in it . Thus Donne shews his medicinal ...
... verses we have an allusion to a Rabinical opinion concerning Manna : Variety I ask not ; give me one To live perpetually open The person Love does to us fit , Like manna , has the taste of all in it . Thus Donne shews his medicinal ...
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... verses to Lord Falkland , whom every man of his time was proud to praise , there are , as there must be in all Cowley's compo- sitions , some striking thoughts , but they are not well wrought . His elegy on Sir Henry Wotten is vigorous ...
... verses to Lord Falkland , whom every man of his time was proud to praise , there are , as there must be in all Cowley's compo- sitions , some striking thoughts , but they are not well wrought . His elegy on Sir Henry Wotten is vigorous ...
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... verses for Reason is a passage which Bentley , in the only English verses which he is known to have written , seems to have copied , though with the inferiority of an imitator , The Holy Book like the eighth sphere doth shine With ...
... verses for Reason is a passage which Bentley , in the only English verses which he is known to have written , seems to have copied , though with the inferiority of an imitator , The Holy Book like the eighth sphere doth shine With ...
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