Lives of The English Poets Volume I1961 |
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Page 112
... images . It is not to be considered as the effusion of real passion ; for passion runs not after remote allusions and obscure opinions . Passion plucks no berries from the myrtle and ivy , nor calls upon Arethuse and Mincius , nor tells ...
... images . It is not to be considered as the effusion of real passion ; for passion runs not after remote allusions and obscure opinions . Passion plucks no berries from the myrtle and ivy , nor calls upon Arethuse and Mincius , nor tells ...
Page 115
... images are properly selected , and nicely distinguished ; but the colours of the diction seem not sufficiently discriminated . I know not whether the characters are kept sufficiently apart . No mirth can , indeed , be found in his ...
... images are properly selected , and nicely distinguished ; but the colours of the diction seem not sufficiently discriminated . I know not whether the characters are kept sufficiently apart . No mirth can , indeed , be found in his ...
Page 326
... images either just or splendid : I am as free as Nature first made man , Ere the base laws of servitude began , When wild in woods the noble savage ran . - " Tis but because the Living death ne'er knew , They fear to prove it as a thing ...
... images either just or splendid : I am as free as Nature first made man , Ere the base laws of servitude began , When wild in woods the noble savage ran . - " Tis but because the Living death ne'er knew , They fear to prove it as a thing ...
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