The lives of the English poetsRivington, 1858 - 414 pages |
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... reader's esteem for the work and the author . To love excellence , is natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover to solicit reciprocal regard by an elaborate display of his own qualifications . The desire of pleasing has in ...
... reader's esteem for the work and the author . To love excellence , is natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover to solicit reciprocal regard by an elaborate display of his own qualifications . The desire of pleasing has in ...
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... reader , far from wondering that he missed them , wonders more frequently by what perverseness of industry they were ever found . But wit , abstracted from its effects upon the hearer , may be more rigorously and philosophically ...
... reader , far from wondering that he missed them , wonders more frequently by what perverseness of industry they were ever found . But wit , abstracted from its effects upon the hearer , may be more rigorously and philosophically ...
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... understood , they sometimes drew their conceits from recesses of learning not very much frequented by common readers of poetry . Thus Cowley on Knowledge : The sacred tree ' midst the fair orchard grew The 14 COWLEY . DENHAM.
... understood , they sometimes drew their conceits from recesses of learning not very much frequented by common readers of poetry . Thus Cowley on Knowledge : The sacred tree ' midst the fair orchard grew The 14 COWLEY . DENHAM.
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... by that impression grow , Till thy tears mixt with mine do overflow This world , by waters sent from thee my heaven dissolved so . Johnson's Lives . I. 2 On reading the following lines , the reader may perhaps COWLEY . 17.
... by that impression grow , Till thy tears mixt with mine do overflow This world , by waters sent from thee my heaven dissolved so . Johnson's Lives . I. 2 On reading the following lines , the reader may perhaps COWLEY . 17.
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Samuel Johnson. 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 ...
Samuel Johnson. 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 ...
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