The lives of the most eminent English poetsJ. Buckland, 1787 |
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... should grow tedious . His retreat was at first but flenderly accommodated ; yet he foon obtained , by the intereft of the earl of St. Albans and the duke of Buckingham , fuch a lease of the Queen's lands as afforded him an ample income ...
... should grow tedious . His retreat was at first but flenderly accommodated ; yet he foon obtained , by the intereft of the earl of St. Albans and the duke of Buckingham , fuch a lease of the Queen's lands as afforded him an ample income ...
Page 24
... should have faid or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ; as Beings looking upon good and evil , impaffive and at leifure ; as Epicurean deities making remarks on the ac- tions of men , and the ...
... should have faid or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ; as Beings looking upon good and evil , impaffive and at leifure ; as Epicurean deities making remarks on the ac- tions of men , and the ...
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... should call me any thing , fhould mifs . I fum the years and me , and find me not Debtor to th ' old , nor creditor to th ' new , That cannot fay , my thanks I have forgot , Nor truft I this with hopes ; and yet scarce true This bravery ...
... should call me any thing , fhould mifs . I fum the years and me , and find me not Debtor to th ' old , nor creditor to th ' new , That cannot fay , my thanks I have forgot , Nor truft I this with hopes ; and yet scarce true This bravery ...
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... should a thing so pleasant seem to thee , That thou shouldst come to live it o'er again in me ? A Lover's heart , a hand grenado . COWLEY , Wo to her stubborn heart , if once mine come Into the felf - fame room , ' Twill tear and blow ...
... should a thing so pleasant seem to thee , That thou shouldst come to live it o'er again in me ? A Lover's heart , a hand grenado . COWLEY , Wo to her stubborn heart , if once mine come Into the felf - fame room , ' Twill tear and blow ...
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... should have remem- bered , that what is fit for every thing can fit nothing well . The great pleafure of verfe arifes from the known measure of the lines , and uniform ftructure of the ftanzas , by which the voice is regulated , and the ...
... should have remem- bered , that what is fit for every thing can fit nothing well . The great pleafure of verfe arifes from the known measure of the lines , and uniform ftructure of the ftanzas , by which the voice is regulated , and the ...
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