The Lives of the English Poets; and a criticism on their works, Volume 11790 |
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... admiration . Sublimity is produced by aggregation , and littleness by difperfion . Great thoughts are always general , and confift in pofitions not limited by exceptions , and in descriptions not descending to minutenefs . It is with ...
... admiration . Sublimity is produced by aggregation , and littleness by difperfion . Great thoughts are always general , and confift in pofitions not limited by exceptions , and in descriptions not descending to minutenefs . It is with ...
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... called by themselves and their ad- mirers , was eminently diftinguished . AS the authors of this race were perhaps more defirous of being admired than under- 2 ftood , ftood , they fometimes drew their conceits from receffes of 34 COWLEY .
... called by themselves and their ad- mirers , was eminently diftinguished . AS the authors of this race were perhaps more defirous of being admired than under- 2 ftood , ftood , they fometimes drew their conceits from receffes of 34 COWLEY .
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... admire No fun , but warm's devotion at our fire : He'd leave the trotting whipfter , and prefer Our profound Vulcan ' bove that waggoner . For wants he heat , or light ? or would have ftore , Or both ? ' tis here : and what can funs ...
... admire No fun , but warm's devotion at our fire : He'd leave the trotting whipfter , and prefer Our profound Vulcan ' bove that waggoner . For wants he heat , or light ? or would have ftore , Or both ? ' tis here : and what can funs ...
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Samuel Johnson. properly admitted , their copiousness and acute- nefs may justly be admired . What Cowley has written upon Hope fhews an unequalled fertility of invention : Hope , whose weak being ruin'd is , Alike if it fucceed , and if ...
Samuel Johnson. properly admitted , their copiousness and acute- nefs may justly be admired . What Cowley has written upon Hope fhews an unequalled fertility of invention : Hope , whose weak being ruin'd is , Alike if it fucceed , and if ...
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... nature in pur- fuit of something new and strange ; and that the writers fail to give delight , by their defire of exciting admiration . E 4 HAVING HAVING thus endeavoured to exhibit a general representation of the GOWLEY . 55.
... nature in pur- fuit of something new and strange ; and that the writers fail to give delight , by their defire of exciting admiration . E 4 HAVING HAVING thus endeavoured to exhibit a general representation of the GOWLEY . 55.
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