The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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... reader's esteem for the work and the author . To love excellence , is natural ; it is na- tural likewise for the lover to solicit reciprocal regard by an elaborate display of his own qualifi- cations . The desire of pleasing has in ...
... reader's esteem for the work and the author . To love excellence , is natural ; it is na- tural likewise for the lover to solicit reciprocal regard by an elaborate display of his own qualifi- cations . The desire of pleasing has in ...
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... new , but seldom natural ; they are not ob vious , but neither are they just ; and the reader , far from wondering that he missed them , wonders more frequently by what perverseness of industry they were ever found COWLEY . 17.
... new , but seldom natural ; they are not ob vious , but neither are they just ; and the reader , far from wondering that he missed them , wonders more frequently by what perverseness of industry they were ever found COWLEY . 17.
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... reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought , and , though he sometimes admires , is seldom pleased . From this account of their compositions it will be readily inferred , that they were not successful in representing or moving ...
... reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought , and , though he sometimes admires , is seldom pleased . From this account of their compositions it will be readily inferred , that they were not successful in representing or moving ...
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... - 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 .
... - 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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