LivesA. Miller, 1800 - English poetry |
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Page 10
... whole endeavour ; but , unluckily resolving to shew it in rhyme , in- stead of writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so ...
... whole endeavour ; but , unluckily resolving to shew it in rhyme , in- stead of writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so ...
Page 11
... 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 general , and consist in positions ...
... 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 general , and consist in positions ...
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... whole again of every part . COWLEY . COWLEY . A coal - pit has not often found its poet ; but that it may not want its due honour , Cleiveland has paralleled it with the Sun : The moderate value of our guiltless ore Makes no man atheist ...
... whole again of every part . COWLEY . COWLEY . A coal - pit has not often found its poet ; but that it may not want its due honour , Cleiveland has paralleled it with the Sun : The moderate value of our guiltless ore Makes no man atheist ...
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... whole Davideis is , however , not much to be regretted ; for in this undertaking Cowley is , tacitly at least , confessed to have miscarried . There are not many examples of so great a work , produced by an author generally read , and ...
... whole Davideis is , however , not much to be regretted ; for in this undertaking Cowley is , tacitly at least , confessed to have miscarried . There are not many examples of so great a work , produced by an author generally read , and ...
Page 32
... whole system of life , while the Theocracy was yet visible , has an appearance so different from all other scenes of human action , that the reader of the Sacred Volume habitually considers it as the peculiar mode of existence of a ...
... whole system of life , while the Theocracy was yet visible , has an appearance so different from all other scenes of human action , that the reader of the Sacred Volume habitually considers it as the peculiar mode of existence of a ...
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