LivesA. Miller, 1800 - English poetry |
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... the great Painter of the present age , had the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal of Richardson's ticatise . VOL . I. B • By By his mother's solicitation he was admmitted into Westminster - ENGLISH POETS .
... the great Painter of the present age , had the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal of Richardson's ticatise . VOL . I. B • By By his mother's solicitation he was admmitted into Westminster - ENGLISH POETS .
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... present time ,, would be considered as merely ludicrous , or at most as an ostentatious display of scholarship ; but te manners of that time were so tinged with superstition , that I cannot but suspect Cowley of having consulted on this ...
... present time ,, would be considered as merely ludicrous , or at most as an ostentatious display of scholarship ; but te manners of that time were so tinged with superstition , that I cannot but suspect Cowley of having consulted on this ...
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... present , but hardly appropriated . The ode on Wit is almost without a rival . It was about the time of Cowley that Wit , which had been till then used for Intellection , in contradistinction to Will , took the meaning , whatever it be ...
... present , but hardly appropriated . The ode on Wit is almost without a rival . It was about the time of Cowley that Wit , which had been till then used for Intellection , in contradistinction to Will , took the meaning , whatever it be ...
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... present day , he has given rather a pleasing than a faithful representation , hav- ing retained their sprightliness , but lost their simplicity . The Anacreon of Cowley , like the Homer of Pope , has admitted the decoration of some ...
... present day , he has given rather a pleasing than a faithful representation , hav- ing retained their sprightliness , but lost their simplicity . The Anacreon of Cowley , like the Homer of Pope , has admitted the decoration of some ...
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... present praise , and not suffi . ciently enquiring by what means the ancients have continued to delight through all the changes of human manners , he contented himself with a de- ciduous laurel , of which the verdure in its spring was ...
... present praise , and not suffi . ciently enquiring by what means the ancients have continued to delight through all the changes of human manners , he contented himself with a de- ciduous laurel , of which the verdure in its spring was ...
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