The lives of the English poets: in 2 vol, Volume 1Tauchnitz, 1858 - 402 pages |
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... knowledge may be sometimes found buried perhaps in grossness of expression , but useful to those who know their value ; and such as , when they are expanded to perspicuity , and polished to elegance , may give lustre to works which have ...
... knowledge may be sometimes found buried perhaps in grossness of expression , but useful to those who know their value ; and such as , when they are expanded to perspicuity , and polished to elegance , may give lustre to works which have ...
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... knowledge in some en comiastic verses : In every thing there naturally grows A Balsamum to keep it fresh and new , If ' twere not injur'd by extrinsic blows ; Your youth and beauty are this balm in you . But you , of learning and ...
... knowledge in some en comiastic verses : In every thing there naturally grows A Balsamum to keep it fresh and new , If ' twere not injur'd by extrinsic blows ; Your youth and beauty are this balm in you . But you , of learning and ...
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... knowledge : Dryden could have sup- plied the knowledge , but not the gaiety . The verses to Davenant , which are vigorously begun , and happily concluded , contain some hints of criticism very justly conceived and happily expressed ...
... knowledge : Dryden could have sup- plied the knowledge , but not the gaiety . The verses to Davenant , which are vigorously begun , and happily concluded , contain some hints of criticism very justly conceived and happily expressed ...
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... knowledge flows in upon his page , so that the reader is commonly surprised into some improvement . But , considered as the verses of a lover , no man that has ever loved will much commend them . They are neither courtly nor pathetic ...
... knowledge flows in upon his page , so that the reader is commonly surprised into some improvement . But , considered as the verses of a lover , no man that has ever loved will much commend them . They are neither courtly nor pathetic ...
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... knowledge , and great fertility of fancy . The thoughts are often new , and often striking ; but the greatness of one part is disgraced by the littleness of another ; and total negligence of language gives the noblest conceptions the ...
... knowledge , and great fertility of fancy . The thoughts are often new , and often striking ; but the greatness of one part is disgraced by the littleness of another ; and total negligence of language gives the noblest conceptions the ...
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