The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their WorksPrinted at the Stanhope Press, by Charles Whittingham ... for John Sharpe, 1805 - 1135 pàgines |
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... images which may exhibit the gaiety of hope , or the gloominess of despair ; and dresses his imaginary Chloris or Phyllis sometimes in flowers fading as her beauty , and some- times in gems lasting as her virtues . At Paris , as ...
... images which may exhibit the gaiety of hope , or the gloominess of despair ; and dresses his imaginary Chloris or Phyllis sometimes in flowers fading as her beauty , and some- times in gems lasting as her virtues . At Paris , as ...
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... images , or discovery of occult resem- blances in things apparently unlike .. Of wit , thus defined , they have more than enough . The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together ; nature and art are ransacked for ...
... images , or discovery of occult resem- blances in things apparently unlike .. Of wit , thus defined , they have more than enough . The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together ; nature and art are ransacked for ...
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... image into fragments ; and could no more re- present , by their slender conceits and laboured parti- cularities , the prospects of nature , or the scenes of life , than he who dissects a sun - beam with a prism can exhibit the wide ...
... image into fragments ; and could no more re- present , by their slender conceits and laboured parti- cularities , the prospects of nature , or the scenes of life , than he who dissects a sun - beam with a prism can exhibit the wide ...
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... images , but for conceits . Night has been a common subject , which poets have contended to adorn . Dryden's Night is well known ; Donne's is as fol- lows : Thou seest me here at midnight , now all rest : Time's dead low - water ; when ...
... images , but for conceits . Night has been a common subject , which poets have contended to adorn . Dryden's Night is well known ; Donne's is as fol- lows : Thou seest me here at midnight , now all rest : Time's dead low - water ; when ...
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... images , and such a dance of words , it is in vain to expect except from Cowley . His strength always appears in his agility ; his volatility is not the flutter of a light , but the bound of an elastic mind . His levity never leaves his ...
... images , and such a dance of words , it is in vain to expect except from Cowley . His strength always appears in his agility ; his volatility is not the flutter of a light , but the bound of an elastic mind . His levity never leaves his ...
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