The lives of the English poets: in 2 vol, Volume 1Tauchnitz, 1858 - 402 pages |
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... shew him to have been above the affectation of unseasonable elegance , and to have known that the business of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetoric . One passage , however , seems not unworthy of some notice ...
... shew him to have been above the affectation of unseasonable elegance , and to have known that the business of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetoric . One passage , however , seems not unworthy of some notice ...
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... shew his loyalty at the hazard of his friend , but by his friend's permission . Of the verses on Oliver's death , in which Wood's narrative seems to imply something encomiastic , there has been no appearance . There is a discourse ...
... shew his loyalty at the hazard of his friend , but by his friend's permission . Of the verses on Oliver's death , in which Wood's narrative seems to imply something encomiastic , there has been no appearance . There is a discourse ...
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... shew their learning was their whole endeavour : but , unluckily re- solving to shew it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ...
... shew their learning was their whole endeavour : but , unluckily re- solving to shew it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ...
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... shew . Each leaf did learned notions give , And th ' apples were demonstrative : So clear their colour and divine , The very shade they cast did other lights outshine . On Anacreon continuing a lover in his old Love was with thy life ...
... shew . Each leaf did learned notions give , And th ' apples were demonstrative : So clear their colour and divine , The very shade they cast did other lights outshine . On Anacreon continuing a lover in his old Love was with thy life ...
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... shew , And all with as much ease might taken be , As she at first took me : For ne'er did light so clear Among the waves appear , Though every night the sun himself set there . The poetical Effect of a Lover's name upon Glass . My name ...
... shew , And all with as much ease might taken be , As she at first took me : For ne'er did light so clear Among the waves appear , Though every night the sun himself set there . The poetical Effect of a Lover's name upon Glass . My name ...
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