The lives of the English poetsRivington, 1858 - 414 pages |
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... true genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally determined to some particular direction . Joshua Reynolds , the great painter of the present age , had the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal of Richardson's ...
... true genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally determined to some particular direction . Joshua Reynolds , the great painter of the present age , had the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal of Richardson's ...
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... true to Love . This obligation to amorous ditties owes , I believe , its original to the fame of Petrarch , who , in an age rude and uncultivated , by his tuneful homage to his Laura , refined the manners of the lettered world , and ...
... true to Love . This obligation to amorous ditties owes , I believe , its original to the fame of Petrarch , who , in an age rude and uncultivated , by his tuneful homage to his Laura , refined the manners of the lettered world , and ...
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... and represented to him the true delights of solitary studies , of temperate pleasures , and a moderate revenue below the malice and flatteries of fortune . " So differently are things seen ! and so differently are COWLEY .
... and represented to him the true delights of solitary studies , of temperate pleasures , and a moderate revenue below the malice and flatteries of fortune . " So differently are things seen ! and so differently are COWLEY .
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... true logic shew . Each leaf did learned notions give , And th ' apples were demonstrative : So clear their colour and divine , The very shade they cast did other lights outshine . On Anacreon continuing a lover in his old age : Love was ...
... true logic shew . Each leaf did learned notions give , And th ' apples were demonstrative : So clear their colour and divine , The very shade they cast did other lights outshine . On Anacreon continuing a lover in his old age : Love was ...
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... true glass through which we see All , since the being of all things is he ; Yet are the trunks , which do to us derive Things in proportion fit , by perspective Deeds of good men ; for by their living here , Virtues , indeed remote ...
... true glass through which we see All , since the being of all things is he ; Yet are the trunks , which do to us derive Things in proportion fit , by perspective Deeds of good men ; for by their living here , Virtues , indeed remote ...
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