The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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Pàgina 28
... give me now , For I too weak of purgings grow . The world and a clock . COWLEY . Mahol th ' inferior world's fantastic face , Thro ' all the turns of matter's maze , did trace ; Great nature's well - set clock in pieces took ; On all ...
... give me now , For I too weak of purgings grow . The world and a clock . COWLEY . Mahol th ' inferior world's fantastic face , Thro ' all the turns of matter's maze , did trace ; Great nature's well - set clock in pieces took ; On all ...
Pàgina 29
... give more ? Nay , what's the sun , but , in a different name , A coal - pit rampant , or a mine on flame ? Then , let this truth reciprocally run , The sun's heaven's coalery , and coals our sun . Death , a voyage . No family E'er ...
... give more ? Nay , what's the sun , but , in a different name , A coal - pit rampant , or a mine on flame ? Then , let this truth reciprocally run , The sun's heaven's coalery , and coals our sun . Death , a voyage . No family E'er ...
Pàgina 34
... give delight by their desire of ex- citing admiration . HAVING thus endeavoured to exhibit a general represen tation of the style and sentiments of the metaphysical poets , it is now proper to examine particularly the works of Cow- ley ...
... give delight by their desire of ex- citing admiration . HAVING thus endeavoured to exhibit a general represen tation of the style and sentiments of the metaphysical poets , it is now proper to examine particularly the works of Cow- ley ...
Pàgina 38
... give now all the pleasure which they ever gave . If he was formed by nature for one kind of writing more than for another , his power seems to have been greatest in the familiar and the festive . The next class of his poems is called ...
... give now all the pleasure which they ever gave . If he was formed by nature for one kind of writing more than for another , his power seems to have been greatest in the familiar and the festive . The next class of his poems is called ...
Pàgina 43
... gives her prescience , or , in poetical language , the foresight of events hatching in futurity ; but , having once an egg in his mind , he cannot forbear to shew us that he knows what an egg contains : Thou into the close nests of time ...
... gives her prescience , or , in poetical language , the foresight of events hatching in futurity ; but , having once an egg in his mind , he cannot forbear to shew us that he knows what an egg contains : Thou into the close nests of time ...
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