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Of Cowley , we are told by Barnes , * who had means enough ofinformation , that
, whatever he may talk of his own inflammability , and the variety of characters by
which his heart was divided , he in reality was in love but once , and then never ...
Of Cowley , we are told by Barnes , * who had means enough ofinformation , that
, whatever he may talk of his own inflammability , and the variety of characters by
which his heart was divided , he in reality was in love but once , and then never ...
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If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be considered as wit
which is at once natural and new , that which , though not obvious , is , upon its
first production , acknowledged to be just ; if it be that which he that never found it
...
If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be considered as wit
which is at once natural and new , that which , though not obvious , is , upon its
first production , acknowledged to be just ; if it be that which he that never found it
...
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Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the pathetic ; for they never
attempted that comprehension and expanse of thought which at once fills the
whole mind , and of which the first effect is sudden atonishment , and the second
...
Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the pathetic ; for they never
attempted that comprehension and expanse of thought which at once fills the
whole mind , and of which the first effect is sudden atonishment , and the second
...
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Once dead , how can it be , Death should a thing so pleasant seem to thee , That
thou should ' st come to live it o ' er again in me ? A Lover ' s Heart , a Hand
Grenado . Woe to her stubborn heart , if once mine come Into the self - same
room ...
Once dead , how can it be , Death should a thing so pleasant seem to thee , That
thou should ' st come to live it o ' er again in me ? A Lover ' s Heart , a Hand
Grenado . Woe to her stubborn heart , if once mine come Into the self - same
room ...
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land , of events hatching in futurity ; but , having once an egg in bis mind , he
cannot forbear to shew us that he knows what an egg contains Thou into the
close nests of Time dost peep , And there with piercing eye Through the firm shell
and ...
land , of events hatching in futurity ; but , having once an egg in bis mind , he
cannot forbear to shew us that he knows what an egg contains Thou into the
close nests of Time dost peep , And there with piercing eye Through the firm shell
and ...
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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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