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... images which may exhibit the gaiety of hope , or the gloominess of despair ; and dresses his imaginary Chloris or Phyllis , sometimes in flowers fading as her beauty , and sometimes in gems lasting as her virtues . At Paris , as ...
... images which may exhibit the gaiety of hope , or the gloominess of despair ; and dresses his imaginary Chloris or Phyllis , sometimes in flowers fading as her beauty , and sometimes in gems lasting as her virtues . At Paris , as ...
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... images , or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike . Of wit , thus defined , they have more than enough . The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together ; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations ...
... images , or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike . Of wit , thus defined , they have more than enough . The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together ; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations ...
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... images , but for conceits . Night has been a common subject , which poets have contended to adorn . Dryden's Night is well known ; Donne's is as follows : Thou seest me here at midnight , now all rest : Time's dead low - water ; when ...
... images , but for conceits . Night has been a common subject , which poets have contended to adorn . Dryden's Night is well known ; Donne's is as follows : Thou seest me here at midnight , now all rest : Time's dead low - water ; when ...
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... images , and such a dance of words , it is in vain to expect except from Cowley . His strength always appears in his agility ; his volatility is not the flutter of a light , but the bound of an elastic , mind . His levity never leaves ...
... images , and such a dance of words , it is in vain to expect except from Cowley . His strength always appears in his agility ; his volatility is not the flutter of a light , but the bound of an elastic , mind . His levity never leaves ...
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... images may entertain for a moment ; but , being unnatural , it soon grows wearisome . Cowley delighted in it , as much as if he had invented it ; but , not to mention the ancients , he might have found it full - blown in modern Italy ...
... images may entertain for a moment ; but , being unnatural , it soon grows wearisome . Cowley delighted in it , as much as if he had invented it ; but , not to mention the ancients , he might have found it full - blown in modern Italy ...
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