The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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... sentiment which enables us to conceive and to excite the pains and the pleasure of other minds : they never inquired what , on any occasion , they should have said or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ...
... sentiment which enables us to conceive and to excite the pains and the pleasure of other minds : they never inquired what , on any occasion , they should have said or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ...
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... sentiment . This kind of writing , which was , I believe , bor- rowed from Marino and his followers , had been recommended ... sentiments . When their reputation was high , they had un- doubtedly more imitators than time has left be hind ...
... sentiment . This kind of writing , which was , I believe , bor- rowed from Marino and his followers , had been recommended ... sentiments . When their reputation was high , they had un- doubtedly more imitators than time has left be hind ...
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... sentiments slight and tri- fling . On an inconstant Woman . He enjoys the calmy sunshine now , And no breath stirring hears , In the clear heaven of thy brow , No smallest cloud appears . He sees thee gentle , fair , and gay , And ...
... sentiments slight and tri- fling . On an inconstant Woman . He enjoys the calmy sunshine now , And no breath stirring hears , In the clear heaven of thy brow , No smallest cloud appears . He sees thee gentle , fair , and gay , And ...
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... sentiments of the metaphysical poets , it is now proper to examine particularly the works of Cowley , who was almost ... sentiment , from burlesque levity to awful grandeur . Such an assemblage of diversified ex- cellence no other poet ...
... sentiments of the metaphysical poets , it is now proper to examine particularly the works of Cowley , who was almost ... sentiment , from burlesque levity to awful grandeur . Such an assemblage of diversified ex- cellence no other poet ...
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... sentiments are at no great distance from our present habitudes of thought . Real mirth must always be natural , and nature is uniform . Men have been wise in very different modes ; but they have always laughed the same way . Levity of ...
... sentiments are at no great distance from our present habitudes of thought . Real mirth must always be natural , and nature is uniform . Men have been wise in very different modes ; but they have always laughed the same way . Levity of ...
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