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... passage in either of the two pages that he accidentally fixes his eye on . It is said that King Charles I. and Lord Falkland being in the Bodleian Library , made this experiment of their fu- ture fortunes , and net with passages equally ...
... passage in either of the two pages that he accidentally fixes his eye on . It is said that King Charles I. and Lord Falkland being in the Bodleian Library , made this experiment of their fu- ture fortunes , and net with passages equally ...
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... passages in which poets have exem- plified their own precepts , none will easily be found of greater excellence than ... passage which Bentley , in the only English verses which he is known to have written , seems to have copied , though ...
... passages in which poets have exem- plified their own precepts , none will easily be found of greater excellence than ... passage which Bentley , in the only English verses which he is known to have written , seems to have copied , though ...
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... passage he starts a sudden question to the confusion of philosophy : Ye learned heads , whom ivy garlands grace , Why does that twining plant the oak embrace : The oak for courtship most of all unfit , And rough as are the winds that ...
... passage he starts a sudden question to the confusion of philosophy : Ye learned heads , whom ivy garlands grace , Why does that twining plant the oak embrace : The oak for courtship most of all unfit , And rough as are the winds that ...
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... passages that can be properly compared , I remember only the description of heaven , in which the different manner of ... passage in his Mistress is so apparently borrowed from Donne , that he probably would not have written it , had it ...
... passages that can be properly compared , I remember only the description of heaven , in which the different manner of ... passage in his Mistress is so apparently borrowed from Donne , that he probably would not have written it , had it ...
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... passage taken by Cow- ley from Donne , I will recompense him by an- other which Milton seems to have borrowed from him . He says of Goliah , Which nature meant some tall ship's mast should be . his numbers are unmusical only when they ...
... passage taken by Cow- ley from Donne , I will recompense him by an- other which Milton seems to have borrowed from him . He says of Goliah , Which nature meant some tall ship's mast should be . his numbers are unmusical only when they ...
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Addison Æneid afterwards appears beauties blank verse called censure character Charles Dryden composition considered Cowley criticism death delight diction diligence Dorset Dryden Duke Dunciad Earl elegance endeavoured English English poetry Essay excellence faults favour friends genius Georgics honour Hudibras Iliad images imagination imitation kind King known labour Lady language Latin learning letter lines lived Lord Lord Halifax ment mentioned Milton mind nature never night Night Thoughts nihil numbers observed occasion once opinion panegyric Paradise Lost passage passion performance perhaps Pindar play pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise published Queen racter reader reason received remarks reputation rhyme satire Savage says seems sent sentiments sometimes supposed Swift Syphax Tatler thing thought tion told tragedy translation verses Virgil virtue Waller whigs write written wrote Young