The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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... equal art Made up the whole again of every part . COWLEY . A coal - pit has not often found its poet ; but , that it may not want its due honour , Cleiveland has paralleled it with the Sun : The moderate value of our guiltless ore Makes ...
... equal art Made up the whole again of every part . COWLEY . A coal - pit has not often found its poet ; but , that it may not want its due honour , Cleiveland has paralleled it with the Sun : The moderate value of our guiltless ore Makes ...
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... equal plea . sure . The artifices of inversion , by which the es- tablished order of words is changed , or of innova tion , by which new words or meanings of words are introduced , is practised , not by those who talk 38 COWLEY .
... equal plea . sure . The artifices of inversion , by which the es- tablished order of words is changed , or of innova tion , by which new words or meanings of words are introduced , is practised , not by those who talk 38 COWLEY .
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... decently advance , And to my song with smooth and equal measure dance ; While the dance lasts , how long soe'er it be , My music's voice shall bear it company ; ' Till all gentle notes be drown'd In the last 42 COWLEY .
... decently advance , And to my song with smooth and equal measure dance ; While the dance lasts , how long soe'er it be , My music's voice shall bear it company ; ' Till all gentle notes be drown'd In the last 42 COWLEY .
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... another which Milton seems to have borrowed from him . He says of Goliah , His spear , the trunk was of a lofty tree , Which nature meant some tall ship's mast should be . Milton of Satan : His spear , to equal which 56 COWLEY .
... another which Milton seems to have borrowed from him . He says of Goliah , His spear , the trunk was of a lofty tree , Which nature meant some tall ship's mast should be . Milton of Satan : His spear , to equal which 56 COWLEY .
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Samuel Johnson. Milton of Satan : His spear , to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills , to be the mast Of some great admiral , were but a wand , He walked with . His diction was in his own time censured as neg- ligent ...
Samuel Johnson. Milton of Satan : His spear , to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills , to be the mast Of some great admiral , were but a wand , He walked with . His diction was in his own time censured as neg- ligent ...
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