The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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... images which may exhibit the gaiety of hope , or the gloominess of despair ; and dresses his imaginary Chloris or Phyllis , sometimes in flowers fading as her beauty , and sometimes in gems lasting as her virtues . At Paris , as ...
... images which may exhibit the gaiety of hope , or the gloominess of despair ; and dresses his imaginary Chloris or Phyllis , sometimes in flowers fading as her beauty , and sometimes in gems lasting as her virtues . At Paris , as ...
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... images , or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike . Of wit , thus defined , they have more than enough . The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by vio- lence together ; nature and art are ransacked for ...
... images , or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike . Of wit , thus defined , they have more than enough . The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by vio- lence together ; nature and art are ransacked for ...
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... image into fragments ; and could no more represent , by their slender conceits and la- boured particularities , the prospects of nature , or the scenes of life , than he , who dissects a sun - beam with a prism , can exhibit the wide ...
... image into fragments ; and could no more represent , by their slender conceits and la- boured particularities , the prospects of nature , or the scenes of life , than he , who dissects a sun - beam with a prism , can exhibit the wide ...
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... images , but for conceits . Night has been a com- mon subject , which poets have contended to adorn . Dryden's Night is well known ; Donne's is as fol- lows : Thou seest me here at midnight , now all rest : Time's dead low - water ...
... images , but for conceits . Night has been a com- mon subject , which poets have contended to adorn . Dryden's Night is well known ; Donne's is as fol- lows : Thou seest me here at midnight , now all rest : Time's dead low - water ...
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... images , and such a dance of words , it is in vain to expect except from Cowley . His strength al- ways appears in his agility ; his volatility is not the flutter of a light , but the bound of an elastic , mind . His levity never leaves ...
... images , and such a dance of words , it is in vain to expect except from Cowley . His strength al- ways appears in his agility ; his volatility is not the flutter of a light , but the bound of an elastic , mind . His levity never leaves ...
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