The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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... dis- tinguished . As the authors of this race were perhaps more desirous of being admired than understood , they sometimes drew their conceits from recesses of learning not very much frequented by common readers of poetry 20 COWLEY .
... dis- tinguished . As the authors of this race were perhaps more desirous of being admired than understood , they sometimes drew their conceits from recesses of learning not very much frequented by common readers of poetry 20 COWLEY .
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Samuel Johnson. learning not very much frequented by common readers of poetry . Thus Cowley on Knowledge : The sacred tree ' midst the fair orchard grew ; The phoenix Truth did on it rest , And built his perfum'd nest , That right ...
Samuel Johnson. learning not very much frequented by common readers of poetry . Thus Cowley on Knowledge : The sacred tree ' midst the fair orchard grew ; The phoenix Truth did on it rest , And built his perfum'd nest , That right ...
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... common topic , the danger of procrastination , is thus illustrated : That which I should have begun In my youth's morning , now late must be done ; And I , as giddy travellers must do , Which stray or sleep all day , and having lost ...
... common topic , the danger of procrastination , is thus illustrated : That which I should have begun In my youth's morning , now late must be done ; And I , as giddy travellers must do , Which stray or sleep all day , and having lost ...
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... common subjects often unne- cessarily and unpoetically subtle ; yet , where scho- lastic speculation can be properly admitted , their copiousness and acuteness may justly be admired . What Cowley has written upon Hope shews an un ...
... common subjects often unne- cessarily and unpoetically subtle ; yet , where scho- lastic speculation can be properly admitted , their copiousness and acuteness may justly be admired . What Cowley has written upon Hope shews an un ...
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... 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 , under the ...
... 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 , under the ...
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