LivesA. Miller, 1800 - English poetry |
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... mention the ancients , he might have found it full - blown in modern Italy . Thus Sannazaro : Aspice quam variis distringar Lesbia curis ! Uror , & heu ! nostro manat ab igne liquor ; Sum Nilus , sumque Etna simul ; reftringite flammas ...
... mention the ancients , he might have found it full - blown in modern Italy . Thus Sannazaro : Aspice quam variis distringar Lesbia curis ! Uror , & heu ! nostro manat ab igne liquor ; Sum Nilus , sumque Etna simul ; reftringite flammas ...
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... mentioned in a single word , and Cowley spends three lines in swearing by the Castalian Stream . We are told of Theron's bounty , with a hint that he had enemies , which Cowley thus enlarges in rhyming prose : But in this thankless ...
... mentioned in a single word , and Cowley spends three lines in swearing by the Castalian Stream . We are told of Theron's bounty , with a hint that he had enemies , which Cowley thus enlarges in rhyming prose : But in this thankless ...
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... mention of particulars is turned more upon the original than the secondary sense , more upon that from which the illustration is drawn than that to which it is applied . Of this we have a very eminent example in the ode intituled The ...
... mention of particulars is turned more upon the original than the secondary sense , more upon that from which the illustration is drawn than that to which it is applied . Of this we have a very eminent example in the ode intituled The ...
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... mentioned in one of his sonnets . At last Michaelmas arrived ; but the Lady had no inclination fo return to the sullen gloom of her husband's habitation , and therefore very wil- lingly forgot her promise . He sent her a letter , but ...
... mentioned in one of his sonnets . At last Michaelmas arrived ; but the Lady had no inclination fo return to the sullen gloom of her husband's habitation , and therefore very wil- lingly forgot her promise . He sent her a letter , but ...
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... mentioned , and a large part of the title of the " Cambridge Dictionary . " have been incorporated and printed with the subsequent editions of " Littleton's Dictionary , ” till that of 1735. Vid . Biogr . Brit . 2985 , in not . So that ...
... mentioned , and a large part of the title of the " Cambridge Dictionary . " have been incorporated and printed with the subsequent editions of " Littleton's Dictionary , ” till that of 1735. Vid . Biogr . Brit . 2985 , in not . So that ...
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