The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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... easily be- lieve to be undissembled ; a man harassed in ons kingdom , and persecuted in another , who , after a course of business that employed all his days and half his nights , in cyphering and decyphering , comes to his own country ...
... easily be- lieve to be undissembled ; a man harassed in ons kingdom , and persecuted in another , who , after a course of business that employed all his days and half his nights , in cyphering and decyphering , comes to his own country ...
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... easily find his way back , when solitude should grow tedious . His retreat was at first but slenderly accommo- dated ; yet he soon obtained , by the interest of the Earl of St. Alban's and the Duke of Buckingham , such a lease of the ...
... easily find his way back , when solitude should grow tedious . His retreat was at first but slenderly accommo- dated ; yet he soon obtained , by the interest of the Earl of St. Alban's and the Duke of Buckingham , such a lease of the ...
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... easily understood without examples ; and I have therefore collected instances of the modes of writing by which this species of poets ( for poets they were called by themselves and their admirers ) was eminently dis- tinguished . As the ...
... easily understood without examples ; and I have therefore collected instances of the modes of writing by which this species of poets ( for poets they were called by themselves and their admirers ) was eminently dis- tinguished . As the ...
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... easily understood , they may be read again . On a round ball A workman , that hath copies by , can lay An Europe , Afric , and an Asia , And quickly make that which was nothing all . So doth each tear , Which thee doth wear , A globe ...
... easily understood , they may be read again . On a round ball A workman , that hath copies by , can lay An Europe , Afric , and an Asia , And quickly make that which was nothing all . So doth each tear , Which thee doth wear , A globe ...
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... easily be found of greater excellence than that in which Cowley condemns exuberance of wit : Yet ' tis not to adorn and gild each part , That shews more cost than art . Jewels at nose and lips but ill appear ; Rather than all things wit ...
... easily be found of greater excellence than that in which Cowley condemns exuberance of wit : Yet ' tis not to adorn and gild each part , That shews more cost than art . Jewels at nose and lips but ill appear ; Rather than all things wit ...
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