The lives of the English poetsRivington, 1858 - 414 pages |
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... truth : he that professes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a real lover , and Laura doubtless deserved his tenderness . Of Cowley , we are told by Barnes , * who had means enough of information , that , whatever he may talk ...
... truth : he that professes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a real lover , and Laura doubtless deserved his tenderness . Of Cowley , we are told by Barnes , * who had means enough of information , that , whatever he may talk ...
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... truth ( which I take to be an argument above all the rest ) , Virgil has told the same thing to that purpose . " 99 This expression from a secretary of the present time would be considered as merely ludicrous , or at most as an ...
... truth ( which I take to be an argument above all the rest ) , Virgil has told the same thing to that purpose . " 99 This expression from a secretary of the present time would be considered as merely ludicrous , or at most as an ...
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Samuel Johnson. The sacred tree ' midst the fair orchard grew The Phoenix Truth did on it rest , And built his perfum'd nest , That right Porphyrian tree which did true logic shew . Each leaf did learned notions give , And th ' apples ...
Samuel Johnson. The sacred tree ' midst the fair orchard grew The Phoenix Truth did on it rest , And built his perfum'd nest , That right Porphyrian tree which did true logic shew . Each leaf did learned notions give , And th ' apples ...
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... the sun , but , in a different name , A coal - pit rampant , or a mine on flame ! Then let this truth reciprocally run , The sun's Heaven's coalery , and coal's our sun . Death , a Voyage . No family E'er rigg'd a 20 COWLEY .
... the sun , but , in a different name , A coal - pit rampant , or a mine on flame ! Then let this truth reciprocally run , The sun's Heaven's coalery , and coal's our sun . Death , a Voyage . No family E'er rigg'd a 20 COWLEY .
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... truth divine , So numberless the stars , that to our eye It makes all but one galaxy . Yet reason must assist too ; for , in seas So vast and dangerous as these , Our course by stars above we cannot know Without the compass too below ...
... truth divine , So numberless the stars , that to our eye It makes all but one galaxy . Yet reason must assist too ; for , in seas So vast and dangerous as these , Our course by stars above we cannot know Without the compass too below ...
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