The lives of the English poetsRivington, 1858 - 414 pages |
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Page 29
... mention the ancients , he might have found it full - blown in modern Italy . Thus Sannazaro : Aspice quam variis distringar Lesbia curis ! Uror , et heu ! nostro manat ab igne liquor : Sum Nilus , sumque Ætna simul ; restringite flammam ...
... mention the ancients , he might have found it full - blown in modern Italy . Thus Sannazaro : Aspice quam variis distringar Lesbia curis ! Uror , et heu ! nostro manat ab igne liquor : Sum Nilus , sumque Ætna simul ; restringite flammam ...
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... mention of particulars is turned more upon the original than the secondary sense , more upon that from which the illustration is drawn than that to which it is applied . Of this we have a very eminent example in the ode , entitled The ...
... mention of particulars is turned more upon the original than the secondary sense , more upon that from which the illustration is drawn than that to which it is applied . Of this we have a very eminent example in the ode , entitled The ...
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... mention is made ; it never appears in books , nor emerges in conversation . By the Spectator it has been once quoted ; by Rymer it has once been praised ; and by Dryden , in " Mack Flecknoe , " it has once been imitated ; nor do Í ...
... mention is made ; it never appears in books , nor emerges in conversation . By the Spectator it has been once quoted ; by Rymer it has once been praised ; and by Dryden , in " Mack Flecknoe , " it has once been imitated ; nor do Í ...
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... mentions , is to be found in many lines and couplets , which convey much meaning in few words , and exhibit the sentiment with more weight than bulk . On the Thames . Though with those streams he no resemblance hold , Whose foam is ...
... mentions , is to be found in many lines and couplets , which convey much meaning in few words , and exhibit the sentiment with more weight than bulk . On the Thames . Though with those streams he no resemblance hold , Whose foam is ...
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... mentions his exile , proves likewise that it was not perpetual ; for it con- cludes with a resolution of returning some time to Cambridge . And it may be conjectured , from the willingness with which he has perpetuated the memory of his ...
... mentions his exile , proves likewise that it was not perpetual ; for it con- cludes with a resolution of returning some time to Cambridge . And it may be conjectured , from the willingness with which he has perpetuated the memory of his ...
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