Lives of the English Poets, Waller, Milton, CowleyCassell, Limited, 1901 - 192 pages |
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... images . In the first Parliament summoned by Charles the Second ( March 8 , 1661 ) , Waller sat for Hastings , in Sussex , and served for different places in all the Parliaments of that reign . In a time when fancy and gaiety were ...
... images . In the first Parliament summoned by Charles the Second ( March 8 , 1661 ) , Waller sat for Hastings , in Sussex , and served for different places in all the Parliaments of that reign . In a time when fancy and gaiety were ...
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... images ; for beauty is more easily found than magnanimity . The delicacy , which he cultivated , restrains him to a certain nicety and caution , even when he writes upon the slightest matter . He has , therefore , in his whole volume ...
... images ; for beauty is more easily found than magnanimity . The delicacy , which he cultivated , restrains him to a certain nicety and caution , even when he writes upon the slightest matter . He has , therefore , in his whole volume ...
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... images such as the superfices of nature readily supplies ; he has a just claim to popularity , because he writes to common degrees of knowledge ; and is free at least from philosophical pedantry , unless per- haps the end of a song to ...
... images such as the superfices of nature readily supplies ; he has a just claim to popularity , because he writes to common degrees of knowledge ; and is free at least from philosophical pedantry , unless per- haps the end of a song to ...
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... images . unnatural : - The plants admire , No less than those of old did Orpheus ' lyre ; If she sit down , with tops all tow'rds her bow'd , They round about her into arbours crowd ; Or if she walks , in even ranks they stand ,. Like ...
... images . unnatural : - The plants admire , No less than those of old did Orpheus ' lyre ; If she sit down , with tops all tow'rds her bow'd , They round about her into arbours crowd ; Or if she walks , in even ranks they stand ,. Like ...
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... images are not always distinct ; as in the follow- ing passage , he confounds Love as a person with Love as a passion : Some other nymphs , with colours faint , And pencil slow , may Cupid paint , And a weak heart in time destroy ; She ...
... images are not always distinct ; as in the follow- ing passage , he confounds Love as a person with Love as a passion : Some other nymphs , with colours faint , And pencil slow , may Cupid paint , And a weak heart in time destroy ; She ...
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