Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-DrydenClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... common with the rest of the ' Hill brothers , ' had in his nature a strong literary bent . Injury to sight which had befallen him when still a young man , from earnest study under unfavourable conditions as he thought , raised a barrier ...
... common with the rest of the ' Hill brothers , ' had in his nature a strong literary bent . Injury to sight which had befallen him when still a young man , from earnest study under unfavourable conditions as he thought , raised a barrier ...
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... common readers of poetry . Thus Cowley on Knowledge : ' The sacred tree midst the fair orchard grew ; The phoenix Truth did on it rest , And built his perfum'd nest , That right Porphyrian tree which did true logick shew . Each leaf did ...
... common readers of poetry . Thus Cowley on Knowledge : ' The sacred tree midst the fair orchard grew ; The phoenix Truth did on it rest , And built his perfum'd nest , That right Porphyrian tree which did true logick shew . Each leaf did ...
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... common topick , the danger of procrasti- 91 nation , is thus illustrated : ' That which I should have begun In my youth's morning , now late must be done ; And I , as giddy travellers must do , Which stray or sleep all day , and having ...
... common topick , the danger of procrasti- 91 nation , is thus illustrated : ' That which I should have begun In my youth's morning , now late must be done ; And I , as giddy travellers must do , Which stray or sleep all day , and having ...
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... common subject , which poets have contended to adorn . Dryden's Night is well known * ; Donne's is as follows : ' Thou seest me here at midnight ; now all rest , Time's dead low - water ; when all minds divest To - morrow's business ...
... common subject , which poets have contended to adorn . Dryden's Night is well known * ; Donne's is as follows : ' Thou seest me here at midnight ; now all rest , Time's dead low - water ; when all minds divest To - morrow's business ...
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... common people die , Unless you write my elegy . ' Eng . Poets , vii . 107 . ' We have had in our language , ' wrote Gray , ' no other odes of the sublime kind than that of Dryden On St. Cecilia's Day ; for Cowley , who had his merit ...
... common people die , Unless you write my elegy . ' Eng . Poets , vii . 107 . ' We have had in our language , ' wrote Gray , ' no other odes of the sublime kind than that of Dryden On St. Cecilia's Day ; for Cowley , who had his merit ...
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