Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-DrydenClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... shew him to have been above the affectation of unseasonable elegance , and to have known that the business of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetorick . One passage , however , seems not unworthy of some notice ...
... shew him to have been above the affectation of unseasonable elegance , and to have known that the business of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetorick . One passage , however , seems not unworthy of some notice ...
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... shew his loyalty at the hazard of his friend , but by his friend's permission . Of the verses on Oliver's death , in which Wood's narrative 30 seems to imply something encomiastick , there has been no appearance . There is a discourse ...
... shew his loyalty at the hazard of his friend , but by his friend's permission . Of the verses on Oliver's death , in which Wood's narrative 30 seems to imply something encomiastick , there has been no appearance . There is a discourse ...
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... shew 51 their learning was their whole endeavour ; but , unluckily resolv- ing to shew it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ...
... shew 51 their learning was their whole endeavour ; but , unluckily resolv- ing to shew it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ...
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... shew . Each leaf did learned notions give , And th ' apples were demonstrative : So clear their colour and divine ... shews his medicinal knowledge in some encomias- 68 tick verses : I ' In every thing there naturally grows A ...
... shew . Each leaf did learned notions give , And th ' apples were demonstrative : So clear their colour and divine ... shews his medicinal knowledge in some encomias- 68 tick verses : I ' In every thing there naturally grows A ...
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... shew'd me you DONNE . Yet more abstruse and profound is Donne's reflection upon Man as a Microcosm : ' If men be worlds , there is in every one Something to answer in some proportion All the world's riches : and in good men this Virtue ...
... shew'd me you DONNE . Yet more abstruse and profound is Donne's reflection upon Man as a Microcosm : ' If men be worlds , there is in every one Something to answer in some proportion All the world's riches : and in good men this Virtue ...
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