LivesA. Miller, 1800 - English poetry |
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... equal art Made up the whole again of every part . COWLEY . COWLEY . A coal - pit has not often found its poet ; but that it may not want its due honour , Cleiveland has paralleled it with the Sun : The moderate value of our guiltless ...
... equal art Made up the whole again of every part . COWLEY . COWLEY . A coal - pit has not often found its poet ; but that it may not want its due honour , Cleiveland has paralleled it with the Sun : The moderate value of our guiltless ...
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... equal pleasure . The artifices of inversion , by which the established order of words is changed , or of innovation , by which new words or new meanings of words are introduced , is practised , not by those who talk to be understood ...
... equal pleasure . The artifices of inversion , by which the established order of words is changed , or of innovation , by which new words or new meanings of words are introduced , is practised , not by those who talk to be understood ...
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... equal measure dance ; While the dance lasts , how long soe'er it be , My musick's voice shall bear it company ;爨 Till all gentle notes be drown'd In the last trumpet's dreadful sound . After such enthusiasm , who will not lament to ...
... equal measure dance ; While the dance lasts , how long soe'er it be , My musick's voice shall bear it company ;爨 Till all gentle notes be drown'd In the last trumpet's dreadful sound . After such enthusiasm , who will not lament to ...
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... be . Milton of Satan : His spear , to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills , to be the mast Of some great admiral , were but a wand , He walked with . His ' diction was in his own time censured as His 36 COWLEY .
... be . Milton of Satan : His spear , to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills , to be the mast Of some great admiral , were but a wand , He walked with . His ' diction was in his own time censured as His 36 COWLEY .
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... equal : Begin , be bold , and venture to be wise : He , who defers this work from day to day , Does on a river's bank expecting stay Till the whole strerm that stopp'd him shall be gone , Which runs , and as it runs , for ever shall run ...
... equal : Begin , be bold , and venture to be wise : He , who defers this work from day to day , Does on a river's bank expecting stay Till the whole strerm that stopp'd him shall be gone , Which runs , and as it runs , for ever shall run ...
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