Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1938 - English poetry |
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Page 344
... poet ? otherwise than by asking in return , If Pope be not a poet , where is poetry to be found ? To cir- cumscribe poetry by a definition will only shew the narrowness of the definer , though a definition which shall exclude Pope will ...
... poet ? otherwise than by asking in return , If Pope be not a poet , where is poetry to be found ? To cir- cumscribe poetry by a definition will only shew the narrowness of the definer , though a definition which shall exclude Pope will ...
Page 357
... poet , blest beyond the poet's fate , Whom Heaven kept sacred from the Proud and Great : Foe to loud praise , and friend to learned ease , Content with science in the vale of peace , Calmly he look'd on either life ; and here Saw ...
... poet , blest beyond the poet's fate , Whom Heaven kept sacred from the Proud and Great : Foe to loud praise , and friend to learned ease , Content with science in the vale of peace , Calmly he look'd on either life ; and here Saw ...
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... poet , than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowley . His numbers , his pauses , his diction , are of his own growth , without transcription , without imitation . He thinks in a peculiar train , and he thinks always as a man of ...
... poet , than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowley . His numbers , his pauses , his diction , are of his own growth , without transcription , without imitation . He thinks in a peculiar train , and he thinks always as a man of ...
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