The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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... piece of human vanity , " he left five hundred pounds , is engraven this epitaph : Sui Temporis Historiam meditanti , Paulatim obrepens Febris Operi simul & Vitæ filum abrupit , Sept. 18. An . Dom . 1721. Etat . 57 . H. S. E. Vir ...
... piece of human vanity , " he left five hundred pounds , is engraven this epitaph : Sui Temporis Historiam meditanti , Paulatim obrepens Febris Operi simul & Vitæ filum abrupit , Sept. 18. An . Dom . 1721. Etat . 57 . H. S. E. Vir ...
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... pieces are , like those of others , sometimes elegant , sometimes trifling , and sometimes dull ; amongst the best are the " Ca- melion , " and the epitaph on John and Joan . Scarcely any one of our poets has written so much and ...
... pieces are , like those of others , sometimes elegant , sometimes trifling , and sometimes dull ; amongst the best are the " Ca- melion , " and the epitaph on John and Joan . Scarcely any one of our poets has written so much and ...
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... pieces are only tissues of common thoughts ; and his smaller , which con- sist of light images or single conceits , are not al ways his own . I have traced him among the French epigrammatists , and have been informed that he poached for ...
... pieces are only tissues of common thoughts ; and his smaller , which con- sist of light images or single conceits , are not al ways his own . I have traced him among the French epigrammatists , and have been informed that he poached for ...
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... pieces neither elevation of fancy , selection of language , nor skill in versifica- tion ; yet , if I were required to select from the whole mass of English poetry the most poetical paragraph , I know not what I could prefer to an ...
... pieces neither elevation of fancy , selection of language , nor skill in versifica- tion ; yet , if I were required to select from the whole mass of English poetry the most poetical paragraph , I know not what I could prefer to an ...
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... pieces broke . See Pales weeping too , in wild despair , And to the piercing winds her bosom bare . And see yon fading myrtle , where appears The Queen of Love , all bath'd in flowing tears ! See how she wrings her hands , and beats her ...
... pieces broke . See Pales weeping too , in wild despair , And to the piercing winds her bosom bare . And see yon fading myrtle , where appears The Queen of Love , all bath'd in flowing tears ! See how she wrings her hands , and beats her ...
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