LivesA. Miller, 1800 - English poetry |
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... common readers of poetry . Thus Cowley on Knowledge : The sacred tree midst the fair orchard grew ; The phoenix Truth did on it rest , And built his perfum'd nest , That That right Porphyrian tree which did true logic shew . 12 COWLEY .
... common readers of poetry . Thus Cowley on Knowledge : The sacred tree midst the fair orchard grew ; The phoenix Truth did on it rest , And built his perfum'd nest , That That right Porphyrian tree which did true logic shew . 12 COWLEY .
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... common topick , the danger 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 topick , the danger 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 : Thou seest me here at midnight , now all rest : Time's dead low - water ; when all minds divest To - morrow's To - morrow's ...
... common subject , which poets have contended to adorn . Dryden's Night is well known ; Donne's is as follows : Thou seest me here at midnight , now all rest : Time's dead low - water ; when all minds divest To - morrow's To - morrow's ...
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... common authors may justly think not only above their attainment , but above their ambition . To the Miscellanies succeeded the Anacreontiques , or paraphrastical transla- tions of some little poems , which pass , however justly , under ...
... common authors may justly think not only above their attainment , but above their ambition . To the Miscellanies succeeded the Anacreontiques , or paraphrastical transla- tions of some little poems , which pass , however justly , under ...
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... common appearances . Cowley says , with a learned allusion to sepulchral lamps real or fabulous , ' Twixt his right ribs deep pierc'd the furious blade , And open'd wide those secret vessels where Life's light goes out , when first they ...
... common appearances . Cowley says , with a learned allusion to sepulchral lamps real or fabulous , ' Twixt his right ribs deep pierc'd the furious blade , And open'd wide those secret vessels where Life's light goes out , when first they ...
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