The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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... beauties . of flowers in various measures ; and the fifth and sixth , the uses of trees , in heroic numbers . At the same time were produced , from the same university , the two great poets , Cowley and Milton , of dissimilar genius ...
... beauties . of flowers in various measures ; and the fifth and sixth , the uses of trees , in heroic numbers . At the same time were produced , from the same university , the two great poets , Cowley and Milton , of dissimilar genius ...
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... beauties which common authors may justly think not only above their attainment , but above their ambition . To the Miscellanies succeed the Anacreontics , or paraphrastical translations of some little poems , which pass , however justly ...
... beauties which common authors may justly think not only above their attainment , but above their ambition . To the Miscellanies succeed the Anacreontics , or paraphrastical translations of some little poems , which pass , however justly ...
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... beauties and faults , and nearly in the same proportion . They are written with exube- rance of wit , and with copiousness of learning : and it is truly asserted by Sprat , that the plenitude of the writer's knowledge flows in upon his ...
... beauties and faults , and nearly in the same proportion . They are written with exube- rance of wit , and with copiousness of learning : and it is truly asserted by Sprat , that the plenitude of the writer's knowledge flows in upon his ...
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... beauties and faults of Cow- ley : Omnibus Mundi Dominator horis Aptat urgendas per inane pennas , Pars adhuc nido latet , et futuros Crescit in annos . Cowley , whatever was his subject , seems to have been carried , by a kind of ...
... beauties and faults of Cow- ley : Omnibus Mundi Dominator horis Aptat urgendas per inane pennas , Pars adhuc nido latet , et futuros Crescit in annos . Cowley , whatever was his subject , seems to have been carried , by a kind of ...
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... beauties ' deepest red : An harmless flatt'ring meteor shone for hair , And fell adown his shoulders with loose care ; He cuts out a silk mantle from the skies , Where the most sprightly azure pleas'd the eyes ; This he with starry ...
... beauties ' deepest red : An harmless flatt'ring meteor shone for hair , And fell adown his shoulders with loose care ; He cuts out a silk mantle from the skies , Where the most sprightly azure pleas'd the eyes ; This he with starry ...
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