Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-DrydenClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... true Genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally determined to some particular direction 5. Sir Joshua Reynolds , the great Painter of the present age , had the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal of ...
... true Genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally determined to some particular direction 5. Sir Joshua Reynolds , the great Painter of the present age , had the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal of ...
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... true to Love ' . ' This obligation to amorous ditties owes , I believe , its original to the fame of Petrarch , who , in an age rude and uncultivated , by his tuneful homage to his Laura , refined the manners of the lettered world , and ...
... true to Love ' . ' This obligation to amorous ditties owes , I believe , its original to the fame of Petrarch , who , in an age rude and uncultivated , by his tuneful homage to his Laura , refined the manners of the lettered world , and ...
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... true delights of solitary studies , of temperate pleasures , and [ of ] a moderate revenue below the malice and flatteries of fortune " . So differently are things seen and so differently are they 44 shown ; but actions are visible ...
... true delights of solitary studies , of temperate pleasures , and [ of ] a moderate revenue below the malice and flatteries of fortune " . So differently are things seen and so differently are they 44 shown ; but actions are visible ...
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... true logick shew . Each leaf did learned notions give , And th ' apples were demonstrative : So clear their colour and divine , The very shade they cast did other lights outshine ' . ' On Anacreon continuing a lover in his old age ...
... true logick shew . Each leaf did learned notions give , And th ' apples were demonstrative : So clear their colour and divine , The very shade they cast did other lights outshine ' . ' On Anacreon continuing a lover in his old age ...
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... true This bravery is , since these times shew'd me you ' , ' DONNE . 70 Yet more abstruse and profound is Donne's reflection upon Man as a Microcosm : 71 ' If men be worlds , there is in every one Something to answer in some proportion ...
... true This bravery is , since these times shew'd me you ' , ' DONNE . 70 Yet more abstruse and profound is Donne's reflection upon Man as a Microcosm : 71 ' If men be worlds , there is in every one Something to answer in some proportion ...
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