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... forming descriptions , they looked out , not for images , but for conceits . Night has been a 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 ...
... forming descriptions , they looked out , not for images , but for conceits . Night has been a 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 ...
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... of words are introduced , is practised , not by those who talk to be understood , but by those who write to be admired . The Anacreontics therefore of Cowley give now all the pleasure which they ever gave . If he was formed 28 COWLEY .
... of words are introduced , is practised , not by those who talk to be understood , but by those who write to be admired . The Anacreontics therefore of Cowley give now all the pleasure which they ever gave . If he was formed 28 COWLEY .
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Samuel Johnson. pleasure which they ever gave . If he was formed by nature for one kind of writing more than for another , his power seems to have been greatest in the familiar and the festive . The next class of his poems is called The ...
Samuel Johnson. pleasure which they ever gave . If he was formed by nature for one kind of writing more than for another , his power seems to have been greatest in the familiar and the festive . The next class of his poems is called The ...
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... forming lie , Close in their sacred secundine asleep . The same thought is more generally , and therefore more poetically expressed by Casimir , a writer who has many of the beauties and faults of Cowley : Omnibus Mundi Dominator horis ...
... forming lie , Close in their sacred secundine asleep . The same thought is more generally , and therefore more poetically expressed by Casimir , a writer who has many of the beauties and faults of Cowley : Omnibus Mundi Dominator horis ...
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... formed rather from the Odyssey than the Iliad : and many artifices of diversifica- tion are employed , with the skill of a man acquainted with the best models . The past is recalled by narration , and the future anticipated by vision ...
... formed rather from the Odyssey than the Iliad : and many artifices of diversifica- tion are employed , with the skill of a man acquainted with the best models . The past is recalled by narration , and the future anticipated by vision ...
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