The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1C. Bathurst, 1783 |
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... of this race were perhaps more defirous of being admired than understood , they fometimes drew their con eits from receffes of learning not very much free frequented by common readers of poetry . Thus Cowley on 82 COWL E Y.
... of this race were perhaps more defirous of being admired than understood , they fometimes drew their con eits from receffes of learning not very much free frequented by common readers of poetry . Thus Cowley on 82 COWL E Y.
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With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. frequented by common readers of poetry . Thus Cowley on Knowledge : The facred tree midst the fair orchard grew ; The phoenix Truth did on it reft , And built his perfum'd neft ...
With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. frequented by common readers of poetry . Thus Cowley on Knowledge : The facred tree midst the fair orchard grew ; The phoenix Truth did on it reft , And built his perfum'd neft ...
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... common topick , the danger of procraftination , is thus illuf- trated : -That which I should have begun In my youth's morning , now late must be done s And I , as giddy travellers must do , Which stray or fleep all day , and having loft ...
... common topick , the danger of procraftination , is thus illuf- trated : -That which I should have begun In my youth's morning , now late must be done s And I , as giddy travellers must do , Which stray or fleep all day , and having loft ...
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... common fubject , which poets have contended to adorn . Dryden's Night is well known ; Donne's is as follows : Thou feeft me here at midnight , now all rest : Time's dead low - water ; when all minds divest To morrow's bufinefs , when ...
... common fubject , which poets have contended to adorn . Dryden's Night is well known ; Donne's is as follows : Thou feeft me here at midnight , now all rest : Time's dead low - water ; when all minds divest To morrow's bufinefs , when ...
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... common fubjects often unneceffarily and unpoetically subtle ; yet where fcholaftick fpeculation can be pro- perly admitted , their copiousness and acute- ness may justly be admired . What Cowley has written upon Hope , fhews an ...
... common fubjects often unneceffarily and unpoetically subtle ; yet where fcholaftick fpeculation can be pro- perly admitted , their copiousness and acute- ness may justly be admired . What Cowley has written upon Hope , fhews an ...
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