The lives of the most eminent English poetsJ. Buckland, 1787 |
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... equal art Made up the whole again of every part . COWLEY . A coal - pit has not often found its poet ; but that it may not want its due honour , Cleiveland has paralleled it with the Sun : The moderate value of our guiltless ore Makes ...
... equal art Made up the whole again of every part . COWLEY . A coal - pit has not often found its poet ; but that it may not want its due honour , Cleiveland has paralleled it with the Sun : The moderate value of our guiltless ore Makes ...
Page 45
... equal pleasure . The artifices of inverfion , by which the established order of words is changed , or of innovation , by which new words or new meanings of words are introduced , is practifed , not by those who talk to be understood ...
... equal pleasure . The artifices of inverfion , by which the established order of words is changed , or of innovation , by which new words or new meanings of words are introduced , is practifed , not by those who talk to be understood ...
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... equal measure dance ; While the dance lafts , how long foe'er it be , My mufick's voice fhall bear it company ; Till all gentle notes be drown'd In the last trumpet's dreadful found . After fuch enthufiafm , who will not lament to find ...
... equal measure dance ; While the dance lafts , how long foe'er it be , My mufick's voice fhall bear it company ; Till all gentle notes be drown'd In the last trumpet's dreadful found . After fuch enthufiafm , who will not lament to find ...
Page 64
... equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills , to be the mast Offome great admiral , were but a wand , He walk'd with , His diction was in his own time cenfured as negligent . He seems not to have known , or not to have ...
... equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills , to be the mast Offome great admiral , were but a wand , He walk'd with , His diction was in his own time cenfured as negligent . He seems not to have known , or not to have ...
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... equal ; Begin , be bold , and venture to be wife , He who defers this work from day to day , Does on a river's bank expecting stay Till the whole ftream that stopp'd him shall be gone , Which runs , and as it runs , for ever shall run ...
... equal ; Begin , be bold , and venture to be wife , He who defers this work from day to day , Does on a river's bank expecting stay Till the whole ftream that stopp'd him shall be gone , Which runs , and as it runs , for ever shall run ...
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