The lives of the English poetsRivington, 1858 - 414 pages |
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... than understood , they sometimes drew their conceits from recesses of learning not very much frequented by common readers of poetry . Thus Cowley on Knowledge : The sacred tree ' midst the fair orchard grew The 14 COWLEY . DENHAM.
... than understood , they sometimes drew their conceits from recesses of learning not very much frequented by common readers of poetry . Thus Cowley on Knowledge : The sacred tree ' midst the fair orchard grew The 14 COWLEY . DENHAM.
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... common topic , the danger of pro- crastination , is thus illustrated : That which I should have begun In my youth's morning , now late must be done ; And I , as giddy travellers must do , Which stray or sleep all day , and having lost ...
... common topic , the danger of pro- crastination , is thus illustrated : That which I should have begun In my youth's morning , now late must be done ; And I , as giddy travellers must do , Which stray or sleep all day , and having lost ...
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... common subject , which poets have contended to adorn . Dryden's Night is well known ; Donne's is as follows : Thou seest me here at midnight , now all rest : Time's dead low - water ; when all minds divest To - morrow's business ; when ...
... common subject , which poets have contended to adorn . Dryden's Night is well known ; Donne's is as follows : Thou seest me here at midnight , now all rest : Time's dead low - water ; when all minds divest To - morrow's business ; when ...
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... common authors may justly think not only above their attainment , but above their ambition . To the Miscellanies succeed the Anacreontics , or para- phrastical translations of some little poems , which pass , however justly , under the ...
... common authors may justly think not only above their attainment , but above their ambition . To the Miscellanies succeed the Anacreontics , or para- phrastical translations of some little poems , which pass , however justly , under the ...
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... common ap- pearances . Cowley says , with a learned allusion to sepulchral lamps , real or fabulous , " Twixt his right ribs deep pierc'd the furious blade , And open'd wide those secret vessels where Life's light goes out , when first ...
... common ap- pearances . Cowley says , with a learned allusion to sepulchral lamps , real or fabulous , " Twixt his right ribs deep pierc'd the furious blade , And open'd wide those secret vessels where Life's light goes out , when first ...
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