The lives of the English poetsRivington, 1858 - 414 pages |
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... observation . Their attempts were always analytic ; they broke every image into fragments ; and could no more represent , by their slender conceits and laboured particularities , the prospects of nature , or the scenes of life , than he ...
... observation . Their attempts were always analytic ; they broke every image into fragments ; and could no more represent , by their slender conceits and laboured particularities , the prospects of nature , or the scenes of life , than he ...
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... observed : the few decisions and re- marks , which his prefaces and his notes on the Davideis supply , were at that time accessions to English literature , and shew such skill as raises our wish for more examples . The lines from Jersey ...
... observed : the few decisions and re- marks , which his prefaces and his notes on the Davideis supply , were at that time accessions to English literature , and shew such skill as raises our wish for more examples . The lines from Jersey ...
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... observe , that whatever is said of the original new moon , her tender forehead and her horns , is superadded by his para- phrast , who has many other plays of words and fancy unsuit- able to the original , as - The table , free for ev ...
... observe , that whatever is said of the original new moon , her tender forehead and her horns , is superadded by his para- phrast , who has many other plays of words and fancy unsuit- able to the original , as - The table , free for ev ...
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... observed in divers other places of this poem , that else will pass for very careless verses : as before , And over - runs the neighb'ring fields with violent course . " In the second book ; “ And , Down a precipice deep , down he casts ...
... observed in divers other places of this poem , that else will pass for very careless verses : as before , And over - runs the neighb'ring fields with violent course . " In the second book ; “ And , Down a precipice deep , down he casts ...
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... never yet obtained its due commendation . Nothing is far sought , or hard - laboured ; but all is easy without feeble- ness , and familiar without grossness . It has been observed by Felton , in his Essay 46 COWLEY .
... never yet obtained its due commendation . Nothing is far sought , or hard - laboured ; but all is easy without feeble- ness , and familiar without grossness . It has been observed by Felton , in his Essay 46 COWLEY .
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