The lives of the most eminent English poetsJ. Buckland, 1787 |
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... labour . Among the English poets , Cowley , Milton , and Pope , might be faid " to lifp in numbers ; " and have given fuch early proofs , not only of powers of language , but of comprehension of things , as to more tardy minds seems ...
... labour . Among the English poets , Cowley , Milton , and Pope , might be faid " to lifp in numbers ; " and have given fuch early proofs , not only of powers of language , but of comprehension of things , as to more tardy minds seems ...
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... labour , directed by great abilities , is never wholly loft : if they frequently threw away their wit upon falfe conceits , they likewife fometimes ftruck out unexpected truth : if their conceits were far - fetched , they were often ...
... labour , directed by great abilities , is never wholly loft : if they frequently threw away their wit upon falfe conceits , they likewife fometimes ftruck out unexpected truth : if their conceits were far - fetched , they were often ...
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... labour fhould co - operate , are thus taught by Donne : In none but us , are fuch mixt engines found , As hands of double office ; for the ground We till with them ; and them to heaven we raise ; Who prayerlefs labours , or without this ...
... labour fhould co - operate , are thus taught by Donne : In none but us , are fuch mixt engines found , As hands of double office ; for the ground We till with them ; and them to heaven we raise ; Who prayerlefs labours , or without this ...
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... labour pay With good unfought experiments by the way . COWLEY , Some that have deeper digg'd Love's mine than I , Say , where his centric happiness doth lie : I have lov'd , and got , and told ; But fhould I love , get , tell , till I ...
... labour pay With good unfought experiments by the way . COWLEY , Some that have deeper digg'd Love's mine than I , Say , where his centric happiness doth lie : I have lov'd , and got , and told ; But fhould I love , get , tell , till I ...
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... labours a mind replete with learning , and that his pages are embellished with all the ornaments which books could fupply ; that he was the first who imparted to English numbers the enthusiasm of the greater ode , and the gaiety of the ...
... labours a mind replete with learning , and that his pages are embellished with all the ornaments which books could fupply ; that he was the first who imparted to English numbers the enthusiasm of the greater ode , and the gaiety of the ...
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