The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1858 - English poetry |
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... ancient models ; for it was not loose verse , but mere prose . It was printed , with a dedication in verse , to Dr. Comber , master of the college ; but , having neither the facility of a popular nor the accuracy of a learned work , it ...
... ancient models ; for it was not loose verse , but mere prose . It was printed , with a dedication in verse , to Dr. Comber , master of the college ; but , having neither the facility of a popular nor the accuracy of a learned work , it ...
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... ancients in their language ; Cowley , without much loss of purity or elegance , accommo- dates the diction of Rome to his own conceptions . At the Restoration , after all the diligence of his long service , and with consciousness not ...
... ancients in their language ; Cowley , without much loss of purity or elegance , accommo- dates the diction of Rome to his own conceptions . At the Restoration , after all the diligence of his long service , and with consciousness not ...
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... ancient laws of augury and rites of sacrifice : And yet this death of mine , I fear , Will ominous to her appear : When sound in every other part , Her sacrifice is found without an heart . For the last tempest of my death Shall sigh ...
... ancient laws of augury and rites of sacrifice : And yet this death of mine , I fear , Will ominous to her appear : When sound in every other part , Her sacrifice is found without an heart . For the last tempest of my death Shall sigh ...
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... ancients , he might have found it full - blown in modern Italy . Thus Sannazaro : Aspice quam variis distringar Lesbia curis ! Uror , et heu ! nostro manat ab igne liquor : Sum Nilus , sumque Ætna simul ; restringite flammam O lacrimæ ...
... ancients , he might have found it full - blown in modern Italy . Thus Sannazaro : Aspice quam variis distringar Lesbia curis ! Uror , et heu ! nostro manat ab igne liquor : Sum Nilus , sumque Ætna simul ; restringite flammam O lacrimæ ...
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... ancient audiences were delighted with the sound . The imita- tor ought therefore to have adopted what he found , and to have added what was wanting ; to have preserved a constant return of the same numbers , and to have supplied ...
... ancient audiences were delighted with the sound . The imita- tor ought therefore to have adopted what he found , and to have added what was wanting ; to have preserved a constant return of the same numbers , and to have supplied ...
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