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... common readers of poetry . Thus Cowley on Know- The sacred tree ' midst the fair orchard grew ; The phoenix Truth did on it rest , And built his perfum'd nest , [ shew . That right Porphyrian tree which did true logic Each leaf did ...
... common readers of poetry . Thus Cowley on Know- The sacred tree ' midst the fair orchard grew ; The phoenix Truth did on it rest , And built his perfum'd nest , [ shew . That right Porphyrian tree which did true logic Each leaf did ...
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... common topic , the dan- ger of procrastination , is thus illustrated : -That which I should have begun In my youth's morning , now late must be done ; And I , as giddy travellers must do , Which stray or sleep all day , and having lost ...
... common topic , the dan- ger of procrastination , is thus illustrated : -That which I should have begun In my youth's morning , now late must be done ; And I , as giddy travellers must do , Which stray or sleep all day , and having lost ...
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... common subject , which poets have contended to adorn . Dryden's Night is well known ; Donne's is as follows : Thon seest me here at midnight , now all rest : Time's dead low - water ; when all minds divest To - morrow's business ; when ...
... common subject , which poets have contended to adorn . Dryden's Night is well known ; Donne's is as follows : Thon seest me here at midnight , now all rest : Time's dead low - water ; when all minds divest To - morrow's business ; when ...
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... common authors may justly think not only above their attainment , but above their ambition . To the Miscellanies succeed the Anacreontics , or paraphrastical translations of some little poems , which pass , however justly , under the ...
... common authors may justly think not only above their attainment , but above their ambition . To the Miscellanies succeed the Anacreontics , or paraphrastical translations of some little poems , which pass , however justly , under the ...
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... common prostitute she lately grew , And with the spurious brood loads now the press ; Laborious effects of idleness . As the Davideis affords only four books , though intended to consist of twelve , there is no opportunity for such ...
... common prostitute she lately grew , And with the spurious brood loads now the press ; Laborious effects of idleness . As the Davideis affords only four books , though intended to consist of twelve , there is no opportunity for such ...
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Addison Æneid afterwards appears beauties blank verse called censure character Charles Dryden composition considered Cowley criticism death delight diction diligence Dryden Duke Dunciad Earl elegance endeavoured English English poetry Essay excellence faults favour friends genius Georgics honour Hudibras Iliad images imagination imitation kind King known labour Lady language Latin learning letter lines lived Lord Lord Halifax ment mentioned Milton mind nature never night Night Thoughts nihil numbers observed occasion once opinion panegyric Paradise Lost passage passion performance perhaps Pindar play pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise published Queen racter reader reason received remarks reputation rhyme satire Savage says seems sent sentiments sometimes supposed Swift Syphax Tatler thing thought tion told tragedy translation verses Virgil virtue Waller whigs write written wrote Young