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Page 14
Milton tried the metaphysic style only in his lines upon Hobson the Carrier .
Cowley adopted it , and excelled his predecessors , having as much sentiment
and more music . Sückling neither improved versification , nor abounded in
conceits .
Milton tried the metaphysic style only in his lines upon Hobson the Carrier .
Cowley adopted it , and excelled his predecessors , having as much sentiment
and more music . Sückling neither improved versification , nor abounded in
conceits .
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Though the following lines of Donne , on the last night of the year , have
something in them too scholastic , they are not inelegant : This twilight of two
years , not past nor next , Some emblem is of me , or I of this , Who , meteor - like ,
of stuff and ...
Though the following lines of Donne , on the last night of the year , have
something in them too scholastic , they are not inelegant : This twilight of two
years , not past nor next , Some emblem is of me , or I of this , Who , meteor - like ,
of stuff and ...
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If the lines are not easily understood , they may be read again . On a round ball A
workman , that hath copies by , can lay An Europe , Afric , and an Asia , And
quickly make that which was nothing all . So doth each tear , Which thee doth
wear ...
If the lines are not easily understood , they may be read again . On a round ball A
workman , that hath copies by , can lay An Europe , Afric , and an Asia , And
quickly make that which was nothing all . So doth each tear , Which thee doth
wear ...
Page 18
a On reading the following lines , the reader may perhaps cry out - Confusion
worse confounded : Here lies a she sun , and a he moon here , She gives the
best light to his sphere , Or each is both , and all , and so They unto one another ...
a On reading the following lines , the reader may perhaps cry out - Confusion
worse confounded : Here lies a she sun , and a he moon here , She gives the
best light to his sphere , Or each is both , and all , and so They unto one another ...
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... the faithless April of thy May . COWLEY . Upon a Paper written with the Juice of
Lemon , and read by the Fire . Nothing yet in thee is seen , But when a genial
heat warms theo within , 1 A new - born wood of various lines there 2 * COWLEY
.
... the faithless April of thy May . COWLEY . Upon a Paper written with the Juice of
Lemon , and read by the Fire . Nothing yet in thee is seen , But when a genial
heat warms theo within , 1 A new - born wood of various lines there 2 * COWLEY
.
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| Title | The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 Collection of British and American Authors Collection of British authors Volumes 418-419 of Collection of British authors, Tauchnitz edition Volume 418 of Tauchnitz edition The Lives of the English Poets, Samuel Johnson |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1858 |
| Original from | Barcelona Athenaeum Library |
| Digitized | 22 Dec 2008 |
| Length | 414 pages |
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