The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1858 - English poetry |
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... gave him so good a report , That Apollo gave heed to all he could say : Nor would he have had , ' tis thought , a rebuke , Unless he bad done some notable folly : Writ verses unjustly in praise of Sam Tuke , Or printed his pitiful ...
... gave him so good a report , That Apollo gave heed to all he could say : Nor would he have had , ' tis thought , a rebuke , Unless he bad done some notable folly : Writ verses unjustly in praise of Sam Tuke , Or printed his pitiful ...
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... their illustrations were true ; it was enough that they were popular . Bacon remarks , that some falsehoods are continued by tradition , because they supply commodious allusions . It gave a piteous groan , and so it broke COWLEY . 23.
... their illustrations were true ; it was enough that they were popular . Bacon remarks , that some falsehoods are continued by tradition , because they supply commodious allusions . It gave a piteous groan , and so it broke COWLEY . 23.
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Samuel Johnson. It gave a piteous groan , and so it broke ; In vain it something would have spoke ; The love within too strong for't was , Like poison put into a Venice - glass . COWLEY . In forming descriptions , they looked out , not ...
Samuel Johnson. It gave a piteous groan , and so it broke ; In vain it something would have spoke ; The love within too strong for't was , Like poison put into a Venice - glass . COWLEY . In forming descriptions , they looked out , not ...
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... of words are introduced , is practised , not by those who talk to be understood , but by those who write to be admired . The Anacreontics therefore of Cowley give now all the pleasure which they ever gave . If he was formed 28 COWLEY .
... of words are introduced , is practised , not by those who talk to be understood , but by those who write to be admired . The Anacreontics therefore of Cowley give now all the pleasure which they ever gave . If he was formed 28 COWLEY .
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Samuel Johnson. pleasure which they ever gave . If he was formed by nature for one kind of writing more than for another , his power seems to have been greatest in the familiar and the festive . The next class of his poems is called The ...
Samuel Johnson. pleasure which they ever gave . If he was formed by nature for one kind of writing more than for another , his power seems to have been greatest in the familiar and the festive . The next class of his poems is called The ...
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