The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1858 - English poetry |
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... delight to read , till , by feeling the charms of verse , he became , as he relates , irrecoverably a poet . Such are the accidents which , sometimes remembered , and perhaps sometimes forgotten , produce that Johnson's Lives . I. 1 Sir ...
... delight to read , till , by feeling the charms of verse , he became , as he relates , irrecoverably a poet . Such are the accidents which , sometimes remembered , and perhaps sometimes forgotten , produce that Johnson's Lives . I. 1 Sir ...
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... represented to him the true delights of solitary studies , of temperate pleasures , and a moderate revenue below the malice and flatteries of fortune . " . So differently are things seen ! and so differently are COWLEY .
... represented to him the true delights of solitary studies , of temperate pleasures , and a moderate revenue below the malice and flatteries of fortune . " . So differently are things seen ! and so differently are COWLEY .
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... delight , Who , whilst thou should'st but taste , devour'st it quite ! Thou bring'st us an estate , yet leav'st us poor , By clogging it with legacies before ! The joys which we entire should wed , Come deflower'd virgins to our bed ...
... delight , Who , whilst thou should'st but taste , devour'st it quite ! Thou bring'st us an estate , yet leav'st us poor , By clogging it with legacies before ! The joys which we entire should wed , Come deflower'd virgins to our bed ...
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... delight by their desire of exciting admiration . HAVING thus endeavoured to exhibit a general represen- tation of the style and sentiments of the metaphysical poets , it is now proper to examine particularly the works of Cowley , who ...
... delight by their desire of exciting admiration . HAVING thus endeavoured to exhibit a general represen- tation of the style and sentiments of the metaphysical poets , it is now proper to examine particularly the works of Cowley , who ...
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... delighted in it , as much as if he had invented it ; but , not to mention the 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 ...
... delighted in it , as much as if he had invented it ; but , not to mention the 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 ...
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