Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1868 |
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... Lines on Levett , ' would do honour to any name in our literature . He gives ( I feel and regret ) a most undue preference to rhyme over blank verse , and is too uncompromising an advocate for the school of Dryden and Pope ; yet when ...
... Lines on Levett , ' would do honour to any name in our literature . He gives ( I feel and regret ) a most undue preference to rhyme over blank verse , and is too uncompromising an advocate for the school of Dryden and Pope ; yet when ...
Pàgina 54
... 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 , of whom any remembrance can be said to remain , were Suckling ...
... 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 , of whom any remembrance can be said to remain , were Suckling ...
Pàgina 56
... lines of Donne , on the last night of the year , have something in them too scholastic , they are not inelegant : " This twilight of two years , not past nor next , Some emblem is of me , or I of this , Who , meteor - like , of stuff ...
... lines of Donne , on the last night of the year , have something in them too scholastic , they are not inelegant : " This twilight of two years , not past nor next , Some emblem is of me , or I of this , Who , meteor - like , of stuff ...
Pàgina 58
... lines are not easily understood , they may be read again : " On a round ball A workman , that hath copies by , can lay An Europe , Afric , and an Asia , And quickly make that , which was nothing , All . So doth each tear , Which thee ...
... lines are not easily understood , they may be read again : " On a round ball A workman , that hath copies by , can lay An Europe , Afric , and an Asia , And quickly make that , which was nothing , All . So doth each tear , Which thee ...
Pàgina 59
... lines so many remote ideas could be brought together ? " Since ' tis my doom , Love's undershrieve , Why this reprieve ? Why doth my she advowson fly Incumbency To sell thyself dost thou intend By candle's end , And hold the contract ...
... lines so many remote ideas could be brought together ? " Since ' tis my doom , Love's undershrieve , Why this reprieve ? Why doth my she advowson fly Incumbency To sell thyself dost thou intend By candle's end , And hold the contract ...
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