LivesA. Miller, 1800 - English poetry |
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... thought proper , fitted his old Comedy of the " Guardian " for the stage , he produced it under the title of " The Cutter of Coleman- " street " It was treated on the stage with great severity , and was after- wards censured as a satire ...
... thought proper , fitted his old Comedy of the " Guardian " for the stage , he produced it under the title of " The Cutter of Coleman- " street " It was treated on the stage with great severity , and was after- wards censured as a satire ...
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... thought , but was never before so well expressed , " they certainly never at- tained , nor ever sought it ; for they endeavoured to be singular in their thoughts , ad were careless of their diction . But Pope's account of wit is Now in ...
... thought , but was never before so well expressed , " they certainly never at- tained , nor ever sought it ; for they endeavoured to be singular in their thoughts , ad were careless of their diction . But Pope's account of wit is Now in ...
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... thought which at once . fills the whole mind , and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment , and the second rational admiration . Sublimity is produced by aggregation , and littleness by dispersion . Great thoughts are always ...
... thought which at once . fills the whole mind , and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment , and the second rational admiration . Sublimity is produced by aggregation , and littleness by dispersion . Great thoughts are always ...
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... thoughts ; but they are not well wrought . His elegy on Sir Henry Wotton is vi- gorous and happy , the series of ... thought sufficiently at ease that could attend to such minuteness of physiology , But the power of Cowley is not so ...
... thoughts ; but they are not well wrought . His elegy on Sir Henry Wotton is vi- gorous and happy , the series of ... thought sufficiently at ease that could attend to such minuteness of physiology , But the power of Cowley is not so ...
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... thought . Real mirth must be always natural , and nature is uniform . Men have been wise in very different modes ; but they have always laughed the same way . Levity of thought naturally produced familiarity of language , and the ...
... thought . Real mirth must be always natural , and nature is uniform . Men have been wise in very different modes ; but they have always laughed the same way . Levity of thought naturally produced familiarity of language , and the ...
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