The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 8Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 - English poetry |
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... better in fiction than in truth . " The Congratulation is indeed not inferior to the Panegyric , either by decay of ge- nius , or for want of diligence ; but because Cromwell had done much , and Charles had done little . Cromwell wanted ...
... better in fiction than in truth . " The Congratulation is indeed not inferior to the Panegyric , either by decay of ge- nius , or for want of diligence ; but because Cromwell had done much , and Charles had done little . Cromwell wanted ...
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... better passages and worse . There is something too far - fetched in the comparison of the Spaniards drawing the English on , by saluting St. Lucar with cannon , to lambs awakening the lion by bleating . The fate of the marquis and his ...
... better passages and worse . There is something too far - fetched in the comparison of the Spaniards drawing the English on , by saluting St. Lucar with cannon , to lambs awakening the lion by bleating . The fate of the marquis and his ...
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... better than good ones do in this age ; the severity whereof he thought not un- happily diverted by those faults in the impression , which hitherto have hung upon his book , as the Turks hang old rags , or such - like ugly things , upon ...
... better than good ones do in this age ; the severity whereof he thought not un- happily diverted by those faults in the impression , which hitherto have hung upon his book , as the Turks hang old rags , or such - like ugly things , upon ...
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... better , and in a cadence more agreeable to the nature of the verse he wrote in : so that wherever the natural stops of that were , he contrived the little breakings of his sense so as to fall in with them . And for that reason , since ...
... better , and in a cadence more agreeable to the nature of the verse he wrote in : so that wherever the natural stops of that were , he contrived the little breakings of his sense so as to fall in with them . And for that reason , since ...
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... better , than from Carlisle's beams . THE COUNTESS OF CARLISLE IN MOURNING . WHEN from black clouds no part of sky is clear , But just so much as lets the sun appear ; Heaven then would seem thy image , and reflect Those sable vestments ...
... better , than from Carlisle's beams . THE COUNTESS OF CARLISLE IN MOURNING . WHEN from black clouds no part of sky is clear , But just so much as lets the sun appear ; Heaven then would seem thy image , and reflect Those sable vestments ...
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