The lives of the English poets: in 2 vol, Volume 1Tauchnitz, 1858 - 402 pages |
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... write for what Cowley might have learned from his master Pindar to call " the dream of a shadow . " It is surely not difficult , in the solitude of a college , or in the bustle of the world , to find useful studies and serious ...
... write for what Cowley might have learned from his master Pindar to call " the dream of a shadow . " It is surely not difficult , in the solitude of a college , or in the bustle of the world , to find useful studies and serious ...
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... conveniently come hither the way of Hampton Town , lying there one night . I write this in pain , and can say no more : Verbum sapienti . ' * L'Allegro of Milton . " " even He did not long enjoy the pleasure , or suffer 10 COWLEY .
... conveniently come hither the way of Hampton Town , lying there one night . I write this in pain , and can say no more : Verbum sapienti . ' * L'Allegro of Milton . " " even He did not long enjoy the pleasure , or suffer 10 COWLEY .
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... writing when the feuds of the civil war were yet recent , and the minds of either party were easily irritated , was obliged to pass over many transactions in general expressions , and to leave curi- osity often unsatisfied . What he did ...
... writing when the feuds of the civil war were yet recent , and the minds of either party were easily irritated , was obliged to pass over many transactions in general expressions , and to leave curi- osity often unsatisfied . What he did ...
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... write on their plan it was at least ne- cessary to read and think . No man could be born a metaphy- sical poet nor assume the dignity of a writer , by descriptions copied from descriptions , by imitations borrowed from imita- tions , by ...
... write on their plan it was at least ne- cessary to read and think . No man could be born a metaphy- sical poet nor assume the dignity of a writer , by descriptions copied from descriptions , by imitations borrowed from imita- tions , by ...
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... writing , which was , I believe , borrowed from Marino and his followers , had been recommended by the example of Donne , a man of very extensive and various know- ledge ; and by Jonson , whose manner resembled that of Donne more in the ...
... writing , which was , I believe , borrowed from Marino and his followers , had been recommended by the example of Donne , a man of very extensive and various know- ledge ; and by Jonson , whose manner resembled that of Donne more in the ...
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