The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volume 1 |
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... once , and then never had refolution to tell his paffion . This confideration cannot but abate , in some measure , the reader's efteem for the work and the author . To love excellence is natural ; it is natural likewife for the lover to ...
... once , and then never had refolution to tell his paffion . This confideration cannot but abate , in some measure , the reader's efteem for the work and the author . To love excellence is natural ; it is natural likewife for the lover to ...
Page 28
... once natural and new , that which , though not obvious , is , upon its first pro- duction , acknowledged to be just ; if it be that which he that never found it won- ders how he miffed ; to wit of this kind the metaphyfical poets have ...
... once natural and new , that which , though not obvious , is , upon its first pro- duction , acknowledged to be just ; if it be that which he that never found it won- ders how he miffed ; to wit of this kind the metaphyfical poets have ...
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... once fills the whole mind , and of which the firft effect is fud- den aftonishment , and the fecond rational admiration . Sublimity is produced by ag- gregation , and littlenefs by dispersion . Great thoughts are always general , and ...
... once fills the whole mind , and of which the firft effect is fud- den aftonishment , and the fecond rational admiration . Sublimity is produced by ag- gregation , and littlenefs by dispersion . Great thoughts are always general , and ...
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... Once dead , how can it be , fo Death fhould a thing so pleasant seem to thee , That thou should't come to live it o'er again in me > A Lover's heart , a hand grenado : Wo to her stubborn heart , if once mine come Into the felf fame room ...
... Once dead , how can it be , fo Death fhould a thing so pleasant seem to thee , That thou should't come to live it o'er again in me > A Lover's heart , a hand grenado : Wo to her stubborn heart , if once mine come Into the felf fame room ...
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... once an egg in his mind , he cannot forbear to fhew us that he knows what an egg contains : Thou into the clofe nefts of Time doft peep , And there with piercing eye Through the firm fhell and the thick white doft fpy Years to come a ...
... once an egg in his mind , he cannot forbear to fhew us that he knows what an egg contains : Thou into the clofe nefts of Time doft peep , And there with piercing eye Through the firm fhell and the thick white doft fpy Years to come a ...
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