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Page 98
... images are properly selected , and nicely distinguished ; but the colours of the diction seem not sufficiently discriminated . I know not whether the characters are kept sufficiently apart . No mirth can indeed be found in his ...
... images are properly selected , and nicely distinguished ; but the colours of the diction seem not sufficiently discriminated . I know not whether the characters are kept sufficiently apart . No mirth can indeed be found in his ...
Page 168
... images ; for beauty is more easily found than magnanimity . The delicacy which he cultivated restrains him to a certain nicety and caution , even when he writes upon the slightest matter . He has , therefore , in his whole volume ...
... images ; for beauty is more easily found than magnanimity . The delicacy which he cultivated restrains him to a certain nicety and caution , even when he writes upon the slightest matter . He has , therefore , in his whole volume ...
Page 169
... images unnatural : The plants admire , No less than those of old did Orpheus ' lyre ; If she sit down , with tops all tow'rds her bow'd ; They round about her into arbours crowd : Or if she walks , in even ranks they stand , Like some ...
... images unnatural : The plants admire , No less than those of old did Orpheus ' lyre ; If she sit down , with tops all tow'rds her bow'd ; They round about her into arbours crowd : Or if she walks , in even ranks they stand , Like some ...
Contents
ABRAHAM COWLEY 16181667 | 44 |
JOHN MILTON 16081674 | 64 |
SAMUEL BUTLER 16121680 | 115 |
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