Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-DrydenClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... images which may exhibit the gaiety of hope or the gloominess of despair , and dresses his imaginary Chloris or imitatur in Oda cui titulus , The Chronicle [ Eng . Poets , vii . 137 ] , ubi plus centum amicas enumerat ; qui revera ...
... images which may exhibit the gaiety of hope or the gloominess of despair , and dresses his imaginary Chloris or imitatur in Oda cui titulus , The Chronicle [ Eng . Poets , vii . 137 ] , ubi plus centum amicas enumerat ; qui revera ...
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... images , or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike . Of wit , thus defined , they have more than enough . The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together ; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations ...
... images , or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike . Of wit , thus defined , they have more than enough . The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together ; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations ...
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... image into fragments , and could no more represent by their slender conceits and laboured particularities the prospects of nature or the scenes of life , than he who dissects a sun - beam with a prism can exhibit the wide effulgence of ...
... image into fragments , and could no more represent by their slender conceits and laboured particularities the prospects of nature or the scenes of life , than he who dissects a sun - beam with a prism can exhibit the wide effulgence of ...
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... images , but 98 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 seest me here at midnight ; now all rest , Time's dead low - water ...
... images , but 98 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 seest me here at midnight ; now all rest , Time's dead low - water ...
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... more curious because almost exactly paralleled by some verses of Dr. Donne's . Here is Omar : - " You and I are the image of a pair of compasses , though we have two In all these examples it is apparent that whatever is 34 COWLEY.
... more curious because almost exactly paralleled by some verses of Dr. Donne's . Here is Omar : - " You and I are the image of a pair of compasses , though we have two In all these examples it is apparent that whatever is 34 COWLEY.
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