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... kind the metaphysical poets have seldom risen . Their thoughts are often new , but seldom natural ; they are not obvious , but neither are they just ; and the reader , far from wondering that he missed them , wonders more frequently by ...
... kind the metaphysical poets have seldom risen . Their thoughts are often new , but seldom natural ; they are not obvious , but neither are they just ; and the reader , far from wondering that he missed them , wonders more frequently by ...
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... kind of writing , which , though prosaic in some parts , rises to high poetry in others , and neither towers to the skies , nor creeps along the ground . Of the same kind , or not far distant from it , is the Hind and the Panther , the ...
... kind of writing , which , though prosaic in some parts , rises to high poetry in others , and neither towers to the skies , nor creeps along the ground . Of the same kind , or not far distant from it , is the Hind and the Panther , the ...
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... kind without the least submission or apparent consciousness of dependence , and that he did not seem to look upon a compliance with his request as an obligation that deserved any extraordinary ac- knowledgments ; but a refusal was ...
... kind without the least submission or apparent consciousness of dependence , and that he did not seem to look upon a compliance with his request as an obligation that deserved any extraordinary ac- knowledgments ; but a refusal was ...
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From The Life of Abraham Cowley | 1 |
From The Life of John Milton 16081674 | 21 |
From The Life of John Dryden 16311700 | 43 |
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