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... excellence : if they differ from verses of others , they differ for the worse ; for they are too often distinguished by repulsive harshness ; the com- bination of words are new , but they are not pleasing ; the rhymes and epithets seem ...
... excellence : if they differ from verses of others , they differ for the worse ; for they are too often distinguished by repulsive harshness ; the com- bination of words are new , but they are not pleasing ; the rhymes and epithets seem ...
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... excellence is truth : he that professes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a real lover , and Laura doubtless deserved his tenderness . Of Cowley , we are told by Barnes , who had means enough of information , that , whatever ...
... excellence is truth : he that professes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a real lover , and Laura doubtless deserved his tenderness . Of Cowley , we are told by Barnes , who had means enough of information , that , whatever ...
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... excellence , commonly spend life in one pursuit ; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms . But to the particular species of excellence men are directed , not by an ascendant planet or predominating humour , but by the ...
... excellence , commonly spend life in one pursuit ; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms . But to the particular species of excellence men are directed , not by an ascendant planet or predominating humour , but by the ...
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Milton | 15 |
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Absalom and Achitophel Addison afterwards appears beauties blank verse called censured character Charles Dryden comedy composition Congreve considered Cowley criticism death delight diction diligence dramatick Dryden Dunciad Earl easily elegance endeavoured English English poetry epick epitaph Euripides excellence fancy favour friends genius heroick Homer honour Iliad images imitation Jacob Tonson John Dryden judgement Juvenal kind King known labour lady language Latin learning Letters lines lived Lord Lord Halifax metaphysical poets Milton mind nature never numbers opinion Paradise Lost passions perhaps Pindar play pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise preface produced publick published reader reason remarks reputation rhyme satire says seems sentiments shew shewn sometimes stanza supposed tell things Thomson thou thought tion told tragedy translation Tyrannick Love verses versification Virgil virtue WILLIAM CONGREVE words write written wrote