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... images which may exhibit the gaiety of hope , or the gloominefs of defpair ; and dreffes his imaginary Chloris or Phyllis fometimes in flowers fading as her beauty , and fometimes . in gems lafting as her virtues . At Paris , as ...
... images which may exhibit the gaiety of hope , or the gloominefs of defpair ; and dreffes his imaginary Chloris or Phyllis fometimes in flowers fading as her beauty , and fometimes . in gems lafting as her virtues . At Paris , as ...
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... effects upon the hearer , may be more rigorously and phi- lofophically confidered as a kind of difcordia concors ; a combination of diffimilar images , or or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike . COWL E Y. 29.
... effects upon the hearer , may be more rigorously and phi- lofophically confidered as a kind of difcordia concors ; a combination of diffimilar images , or or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike . COWL E Y. 29.
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... image into fragments ; and could no more represent , by their flender conceits and laboured particu- larities , the prospects of nature , or the scenes of life , than he , who diffects a fun - beam with a prism , can exhibit the wide ...
... image into fragments ; and could no more represent , by their flender conceits and laboured particu- larities , the prospects of nature , or the scenes of life , than he , who diffects a fun - beam with a prism , can exhibit the wide ...
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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 seeft me here at midnight , now all reft : 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 seeft me here at midnight , now all reft : Time's dead low - water ; when ...
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... images , and fuch a dance of words , it is in vain to expect except from Cowley . His ftrength 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 his ...
... images , and fuch a dance of words , it is in vain to expect except from Cowley . His ftrength 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 his ...
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