The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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... lines on the famous picture of Seneca , afford rea- son for imagining that he was more or less con- versant with that family . The same year he published the " City Mouse and Country Mouse , " to ridicule Dryden's " Hind and Panther ...
... lines on the famous picture of Seneca , afford rea- son for imagining that he was more or less con- versant with that family . The same year he published the " City Mouse and Country Mouse , " to ridicule Dryden's " Hind and Panther ...
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... lines : Mais cette voix , et ces beaux yeux , Font Cupidon trop dangereux ; Et je suis triste quand je crie , Bannissons la Melancholie . Tradition represents him as willing to descend from the dignity of the poet and statesman to the ...
... lines : Mais cette voix , et ces beaux yeux , Font Cupidon trop dangereux ; Et je suis triste quand je crie , Bannissons la Melancholie . Tradition represents him as willing to descend from the dignity of the poet and statesman to the ...
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... lines thirty - five times repeated , incon- sequential and slightly connected , must weary both the ear and the understanding . His imita- tion of Spenser , which consists principally in I ween and I weet , without exclusion of later ...
... lines thirty - five times repeated , incon- sequential and slightly connected , must weary both the ear and the understanding . His imita- tion of Spenser , which consists principally in I ween and I weet , without exclusion of later ...
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... line superfluous when he first wrote it , or con- tracted his work till his ebullitions of invention had subsided . And even if he should control his desire of immediate renown , and keep his work nine years unpublished , he will be ...
... line superfluous when he first wrote it , or con- tracted his work till his ebullitions of invention had subsided . And even if he should control his desire of immediate renown , and keep his work nine years unpublished , he will be ...
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... lines , or entangled sentiments : his words are nicely selected , and his thoughts fully expand- ed . If this part of his character suffers an abate- ment , it must be from the disproportion of his rhymes , which have not always ...
... lines , or entangled sentiments : his words are nicely selected , and his thoughts fully expand- ed . If this part of his character suffers an abate- ment , it must be from the disproportion of his rhymes , which have not always ...
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