The lives of the English poetsRivington, 1858 - 414 pages |
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Page 12
... effects upon the hearer , may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concors ; a combination of dissimilar images , or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike . Of wit , thus ...
... effects upon the hearer , may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concors ; a combination of dissimilar images , or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike . Of wit , thus ...
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... effect is sudden atonishment , and the second rational admiration . Sublimity is produced by aggregation , and littleness by dispersion . Great thoughts are always general , and consist in positions not limited by exceptions , and in ...
... effect is sudden atonishment , and the second rational admiration . Sublimity is produced by aggregation , and littleness by dispersion . Great thoughts are always general , and consist in positions not limited by exceptions , and in ...
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... Effect of a Lover's name upon Glass . My name engrav'd herein Doth contribute my firmness to this glass : Which , ever since that charm , hath been As hard as that which grav'd it was . COWLEY . COWLEY . Their conceits were sentiments ...
... Effect of a Lover's name upon Glass . My name engrav'd herein Doth contribute my firmness to this glass : Which , ever since that charm , hath been As hard as that which grav'd it was . COWLEY . COWLEY . Their conceits were sentiments ...
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... effect : the whole system of life , while the theocracy was yet visible , has an appearance so different from all other scenes of human action , that the reader of the Sacred Volume habitually considers it as the peculiar mode of ...
... effect : the whole system of life , while the theocracy was yet visible , has an appearance so different from all other scenes of human action , that the reader of the Sacred Volume habitually considers it as the peculiar mode of ...
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... effects of idleness . As the Davideis affords only four books , though intended to consist of twelve , there is no opportunity for such criticism as epic poems commonly supply . The plan of the whole work is very imperfectly shewn by ...
... effects of idleness . As the Davideis affords only four books , though intended to consist of twelve , there is no opportunity for such criticism as epic poems commonly supply . The plan of the whole work is very imperfectly shewn by ...
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