The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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... manners of the let tered world , and filled Europe with love and poe- try . But the basis of all excellence is truth : he that professes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a real lover , and Laura doubtless deserved his ...
... manners of the let tered world , and filled Europe with love and poe- try . But the basis of all excellence is truth : he that professes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a real lover , and Laura doubtless deserved his ...
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... manners of that time were so tinged with superstition , that I cannot but suspect . Cowley of having consulted on this great occasion the Vir- gilian Lots , and to have given some credit to the answer of his oracle . * Consulting the ...
... manners of that time were so tinged with superstition , that I cannot but suspect . Cowley of having consulted on this great occasion the Vir- gilian Lots , and to have given some credit to the answer of his oracle . * Consulting the ...
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... manners . He was satiated with the arts of a court ; which sort of life , though his vir- tue made it innocent to him , yet nothing could make it quiet . Those were the reasons that made . him to follow the violent inclination of his ...
... manners . He was satiated with the arts of a court ; which sort of life , though his vir- tue made it innocent to him , yet nothing could make it quiet . Those were the reasons that made . him to follow the violent inclination of his ...
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... manner resembled that of Donne more in the ruggedness of his lines than in the cast of his sentiments . When their reputation was high , they had un- doubtedly more imitators than time has left be hind . Their immediate successors , of ...
... manner resembled that of Donne more in the ruggedness of his lines than in the cast of his sentiments . When their reputation was high , they had un- doubtedly more imitators than time has left be hind . Their immediate successors , of ...
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... manners and real life , is read from age to age with 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 ...
... manners and real life , is read from age to age with 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 ...
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