The lives of the English poetsRivington, 1858 - 414 pages |
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... once , and then never had resolution to tell his passion . This consideration cannot but abate , in some measure , the reader's esteem for the work and the author . To love excellence , is natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover ...
... once , and then never had resolution to tell his passion . This consideration cannot but abate , in some measure , the reader's esteem for the work and the author . To love excellence , is natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover ...
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... 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 wonders how he missed ; to wit of this kind the meta- physical poets have ...
... 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 wonders how he missed ; to wit of this kind the meta- physical poets have ...
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... once fills the whole mind , and of which the first effect is sudden atonishment , and the second rational admiration . Sublimity is produced by aggregation , and littleness by dispersion . Great thoughts are always general , and consist ...
... once fills the whole mind , and of which the first effect is sudden atonishment , and the second rational admiration . Sublimity is produced by aggregation , and littleness by dispersion . Great thoughts are always general , and consist ...
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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 ...
... 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 ...
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... , alas ! allows but one ill winter's day . In the same ode , celebrating the power of the Muse , he gives her prescience , or , in poetical language , the foresight of events hatching in futurity ; but , having once 32 COWLEY .
... , alas ! allows but one ill winter's day . In the same ode , celebrating the power of the Muse , he gives her prescience , or , in poetical language , the foresight of events hatching in futurity ; but , having once 32 COWLEY .
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