LivesA. Miller, 1800 - English poetry |
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... play , it is difficult now to find the reason : it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merri- ment . From the charge of disaffection he exculpates himself in his preface , by observing how ...
... play , it is difficult now to find the reason : it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merri- ment . From the charge of disaffection he exculpates himself in his preface , by observing how ...
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... play . He knew how to distinguish , and how to commend the qualities of his companion ; but when he wishes to make us weep , he forgets to weep himself , and diverts his sorrow by imagining how his crown of bays , if he had it , would ...
... play . He knew how to distinguish , and how to commend the qualities of his companion ; but when he wishes to make us weep , he forgets to weep himself , and diverts his sorrow by imagining how his crown of bays , if he had it , would ...
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... plays round the head , " but reaches not the heart . " Her beauty and absence , her kindness and cruelty . her disdain and inconstancy , produce no correspondence of emotion . His poetical account of the virtues of plants , and colours ...
... plays round the head , " but reaches not the heart . " Her beauty and absence , her kindness and cruelty . her disdain and inconstancy , produce no correspondence of emotion . His poetical account of the virtues of plants , and colours ...
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... plays , writhing and unboning their clergy limbs to all the antick and dishonest gestures of Trincalos * , buffoons and bauds , prostituting the shame of that ministry which they had , or were near having , to the eyes of courtiers and ...
... plays , writhing and unboning their clergy limbs to all the antick and dishonest gestures of Trincalos * , buffoons and bauds , prostituting the shame of that ministry which they had , or were near having , to the eyes of courtiers and ...
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... play , and delights himself at night with the fanciful narratives of superstitious ignorance . The pensive man , at ... played by aerial performers . Both Mirth and Melancholy are solitary , silent inhabitants of the breast , that ...
... play , and delights himself at night with the fanciful narratives of superstitious ignorance . The pensive man , at ... played by aerial performers . Both Mirth and Melancholy are solitary , silent inhabitants of the breast , that ...
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