Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-DrydenClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... admiration for the ' rare genius , the wise and pure enthusiasm , and the exalted beneficence of that great man ' was conspicuous . The strong religious utter- ances occurring in the letters expressed thoughts which were not Birkbeck ...
... admiration for the ' rare genius , the wise and pure enthusiasm , and the exalted beneficence of that great man ' was conspicuous . The strong religious utter- ances occurring in the letters expressed thoughts which were not Birkbeck ...
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... admiration . Sublimity is produced by aggregation , and littleness by dispersion . Great thoughts are always general , and consist in positions not limited by exceptions , and in descriptions not descending to minuteness . It is with ...
... admiration . Sublimity is produced by aggregation , and littleness by dispersion . Great thoughts are always general , and consist in positions not limited by exceptions , and in descriptions not descending to minuteness . It is with ...
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... admired than understood they sometimes drew their conceits from recesses of learning not very much frequented by common readers of poetry . Thus Cowley on Knowledge : The sacred tree midst the fair orchard grew ; The phoenix Truth did ...
... admired than understood they sometimes drew their conceits from recesses of learning not very much frequented by common readers of poetry . Thus Cowley on Knowledge : The sacred tree midst the fair orchard grew ; The phoenix Truth did ...
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... admire No sun , but warm's devotion at our fire : He'd leave the trotting whipster , and prefer Our profound Vulcan ' bove that waggoner . For wants he heat , or light ? or would have store Of both ? ' tis here : and what can suns give ...
... admire No sun , but warm's devotion at our fire : He'd leave the trotting whipster , and prefer Our profound Vulcan ' bove that waggoner . For wants he heat , or light ? or would have store Of both ? ' tis here : and what can suns give ...
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... admired . What Cowley has written upon Hope shews an unequalled fertility of invention : ' Hope , whose weak being ruin'd is , Alike if it succeed , and if it miss ; Whom good or ill does equally confound , And both the horns of Fate's ...
... admired . What Cowley has written upon Hope shews an unequalled fertility of invention : ' Hope , whose weak being ruin'd is , Alike if it succeed , and if it miss ; Whom good or ill does equally confound , And both the horns of Fate's ...
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