LivesA. Miller, 1800 - English poetry |
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... delight to read , til , by feeling the charms of verse , he became , as he relates , irrecoverably a poet . Such are the accidents , which , some- times remembered , and perhaps sometimes forgotten , produce that particular designation ...
... delight to read , til , by feeling the charms of verse , he became , as he relates , irrecoverably a poet . Such are the accidents , which , some- times remembered , and perhaps sometimes forgotten , produce that particular designation ...
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... delight , Who , whilst thou should'st but taste , devour'st it quite ! Thou bring'st us an estate , yet leav'st us poor , By clogging it with legacies before ! The joys which we entire should wed , Come deflower'd virgins to our bed ...
... delight , Who , whilst thou should'st but taste , devour'st it quite ! Thou bring'st us an estate , yet leav'st us poor , By clogging it with legacies before ! The joys which we entire should wed , Come deflower'd virgins to our bed ...
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... delight , by their desire of exciting admiration . HAVING thus endeavoured to exhibit a general representation of the style and sentiments of the metaphysical poets , it is now proper to examine par- ticularly the works of Cowley , who ...
... delight , by their desire of exciting admiration . HAVING thus endeavoured to exhibit a general representation of the style and sentiments of the metaphysical poets , it is now proper to examine par- ticularly the works of Cowley , who ...
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... delight , My verse , great Rhea's son , which is Lofty as that , and smooth as this . In the Nemean ode the reader must , in mere justice to Pindar , observe that whatever is said of the original new moon , her tender forehead and her ...
... delight , My verse , great Rhea's son , which is Lofty as that , and smooth as this . In the Nemean ode the reader must , in mere justice to Pindar , observe that whatever is said of the original new moon , her tender forehead and her ...
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... delighted with the sound . The imitator ought therefore to have adopted what he found , and to have added what was wanting ; to have preserved a constant return of the same numbers , and to have supplied smoothness of transition and ...
... delighted with the sound . The imitator ought therefore to have adopted what he found , and to have added what was wanting ; to have preserved a constant return of the same numbers , and to have supplied smoothness of transition and ...
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