LivesA. Miller, 1800 - English poetry |
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... forming descriptions , they looked out not for images , but , for conceits . Night has been a 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 ...
... forming descriptions , they looked out not for images , but , for conceits . Night has been a 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 ...
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... formed by nature for one kind of writing more than for another , his power seems to have been greatest in the familiar and the festive . The next class of his poems is called The Mistress , of which it is not necessary to select any ...
... formed by nature for one kind of writing more than for another , his power seems to have been greatest in the familiar and the festive . The next class of his poems is called The Mistress , of which it is not necessary to select any ...
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... formed rather from the Odyssey than the Iliad : and many artifices of diversification are employed , with the skill of a man acquainted with the best models . The past is recalled by narration , and the future anticipated by vision ...
... formed rather from the Odyssey than the Iliad : and many artifices of diversification are employed , with the skill of a man acquainted with the best models . The past is recalled by narration , and the future anticipated by vision ...
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... formed of morosyllables ; but yet they are some- times sweet and sonorous . He says of the Messiah , Round the whole earth his dreaded name shall sound , And reach to worlds that i ust not yet be found . In another place , of David ...
... formed of morosyllables ; but yet they are some- times sweet and sonorous . He says of the Messiah , Round the whole earth his dreaded name shall sound , And reach to worlds that i ust not yet be found . In another place , of David ...
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... formed the most beautiful parts of the ancient authors , may be discovered by a perusal of our earlier versions ; some of them the works of men well qualified , not only by critical knowledge , but by poetical genius , who yet , by a ...
... formed the most beautiful parts of the ancient authors , may be discovered by a perusal of our earlier versions ; some of them the works of men well qualified , not only by critical knowledge , but by poetical genius , who yet , by a ...
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