LivesA. Miller, 1800 - English poetry |
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... manners of the lettered world , and filled Europe with love and poetry . But the basis of all excellence is truth : he that professes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a real lover , and Laura doubtless de- served his ...
... manners of the lettered world , and filled Europe with love and poetry . But the basis of all excellence is truth : he that professes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a real lover , and Laura doubtless de- served his ...
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... manner resembled that of Donne more in the ruggedness of his lines than in the cast of his sentiments . When their reputation was high , they had undoubtedly more imitators , than time has left behind . Their immediate successors , of ...
... manner resembled that of Donne more in the ruggedness of his lines than in the cast of his sentiments . When their reputation was high , they had undoubtedly more imitators , than time has left behind . Their immediate successors , of ...
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... manner of speaking . He was therefore not at all re- strained to his expressions , nor much to his sentiments ; nothing was required of him , but not to write as Pindar would not have written . Of the Olympic Ode the beginning is , I ...
... manner of speaking . He was therefore not at all re- strained to his expressions , nor much to his sentiments ; nothing was required of him , but not to write as Pindar would not have written . Of the Olympic Ode the beginning is , I ...
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... manner of subjects . But he should have remem- bered , that what is fit for every thing can fit nothing well . The great pleasure of verse arises from the known measure of the lines , and uniform structure of the stanzas , by which the ...
... manner of subjects . But he should have remem- bered , that what is fit for every thing can fit nothing well . The great pleasure of verse arises from the known measure of the lines , and uniform structure of the stanzas , by which the ...
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... particular passages that can be properly compared , I remember only the description of Heaven , in which the different manner of the two writers is sufficiently discernible . Cowley's is scarcely description , unless is cow COW LE Y. WLEY .
... particular passages that can be properly compared , I remember only the description of Heaven , in which the different manner of the two writers is sufficiently discernible . Cowley's is scarcely description , unless is cow COW LE Y. WLEY .
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