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... lines than in the cast of his sentiments . When their reputation was high , they had undoubtedly more imitators than time has left behind . Their immediate successors , of whom any remembrance can be said to remain , were Suckling ...
... lines than in the cast of his sentiments . When their reputation was high , they had undoubtedly more imitators than time has left behind . Their immediate successors , of whom any remembrance can be said to remain , were Suckling ...
Page 8
... lines of Donne , on the last night of the year , have something in them too scholastic , they are not inelegant : This twilight of two years , not past nor ness Some emblem is of me , or I of this , Who , meteor - like , of stuff and ...
... lines of Donne , on the last night of the year , have something in them too scholastic , they are not inelegant : This twilight of two years , not past nor ness Some emblem is of me , or I of this , Who , meteor - like , of stuff and ...
Page 9
... lines , the reader may perhaps cry out " Confusion worse con- founded : " Here lies a she sun , and a he moon here , She gives the best light to bis sphere , Or each is both , and all , and so They unto one another nothing owe . DONNE ...
... lines , the reader may perhaps cry out " Confusion worse con- founded : " Here lies a she sun , and a he moon here , She gives the best light to bis sphere , Or each is both , and all , and so They unto one another nothing owe . DONNE ...
Page 12
... lines from Jersey are a very curious and pleasing specimen of the familiar descending to the burlesque . His two metrical disquisitions for and against Reason , are no mean specimens of metaphysical Men doubt , because they stand so ...
... lines from Jersey are a very curious and pleasing specimen of the familiar descending to the burlesque . His two metrical disquisitions for and against Reason , are no mean specimens of metaphysical Men doubt , because they stand so ...
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... lines are not such as his deep mouth was used to pour ! Great Rhea's son , If in Olympus top , where thou Sitt'st to behold thy sacred show , If in Alpheus ' silver flight , If in my verse thou take delight , My verse , great Rhea's son ...
... lines are not such as his deep mouth was used to pour ! Great Rhea's son , If in Olympus top , where thou Sitt'st to behold thy sacred show , If in Alpheus ' silver flight , If in my verse thou take delight , My verse , great Rhea's son ...
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