Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1H. Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1906 - English poetry |
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Page 212
... fancy ; but this is rarely to be hoped by Christians from metrical devotion . Whatever is great , desirable , or tre- mendous , is comprised in the name of the Supreme Being . Omnipotence cannot be exalted ; Infinity cannot be amplified ...
... fancy ; but this is rarely to be hoped by Christians from metrical devotion . Whatever is great , desirable , or tre- mendous , is comprised in the name of the Supreme Being . Omnipotence cannot be exalted ; Infinity cannot be amplified ...
Page 249
... fancy , that nothing was proposed to him in which he could not suddenly produce a thought extremely pleasant and surprising ; and those first thoughts of his , contrary to the Latin proverb , were not always the least happy ; and as his ...
... fancy , that nothing was proposed to him in which he could not suddenly produce a thought extremely pleasant and surprising ; and those first thoughts of his , contrary to the Latin proverb , were not always the least happy ; and as his ...
Page 310
... fancy frames for fancy to subdue : But , when ourselves to action we betake , It shuns the mint like gold that chymists make : How hard was then his task , at once to 310 LIVES OF THE POETS.
... fancy frames for fancy to subdue : But , when ourselves to action we betake , It shuns the mint like gold that chymists make : How hard was then his task , at once to 310 LIVES OF THE POETS.
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