The lives of the English poets: in 2 vol, Volume 1Tauchnitz, 1858 - 402 pages |
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... actions of heroism , and effusions of wit ; but it seems as reasonable to appear the champion as the poet of an " airy nothing , " and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley might have learned from his master Pindar to call " the dream ...
... actions of heroism , and effusions of wit ; but it seems as reasonable to appear the champion as the poet of an " airy nothing , " and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley might have learned from his master Pindar to call " the dream ...
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... actions are visible , though motives are secret . Cowley certainly retired : first to Barn - elms , and afterwards to Chertsey , in Surry . He seems , however , to have lost part of his dread of the hum of men . * He thought himself now ...
... actions are visible , though motives are secret . Cowley certainly retired : first to Barn - elms , and afterwards to Chertsey , in Surry . He seems , however , to have lost part of his dread of the hum of men . * He thought himself now ...
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... actions of men , and the vicissitudes of life , without interest and without emotion . Their courtship was void of fondness , and their lamentation of sorrow . Their wish was only to say what they hoped had never been said before . Nor ...
... actions of men , and the vicissitudes of life , without interest and without emotion . Their courtship was void of fondness , and their lamentation of sorrow . Their wish was only to say what they hoped had never been said before . Nor ...
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... action can display . He knew how to distinguish , and how to commend , the qualities of his companion ; but , when he wishes to make us weep , he forgets to weep himself , and diverts his sorrow by imagining how his crown of bays , if ...
... action can display . He knew how to distinguish , and how to commend , the qualities of his companion ; but , when he wishes to make us weep , he forgets to weep himself , and diverts his sorrow by imagining how his crown of bays , if ...
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... action , that the reader of the Sacred Volume habitually considers it as the peculiar mode of existence of a distinct species of mankind , that lived and acted with manners uncommunicable ; so that it is difficult even for imagination ...
... action , that the reader of the Sacred Volume habitually considers it as the peculiar mode of existence of a distinct species of mankind , that lived and acted with manners uncommunicable ; so that it is difficult even for imagination ...
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