The Lives of the English Poets: In Two Volumes, Volume 1Tauchnitz, 1858 - 4 pages |
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Page 26
... easily be found of greater excellence than that in which Cowley condemns exuberance of wit : Yet ' tis not to adorn and gild each part , That shews more cost than art . Jewels at nose and lips but ill appear ; Rather than all things wit ...
... easily be found of greater excellence than that in which Cowley condemns exuberance of wit : Yet ' tis not to adorn and gild each part , That shews more cost than art . Jewels at nose and lips but ill appear ; Rather than all things wit ...
Page 33
... easily surmounted , that a writer , professing to revive the noblest and highest writing in verse , makes this address to the new year : Nay , if thou lov'st me , gentle year , Let not so much as love be there , Vain , fruitless love I ...
... easily surmounted , that a writer , professing to revive the noblest and highest writing in verse , makes this address to the new year : Nay , if thou lov'st me , gentle year , Let not so much as love be there , Vain , fruitless love I ...
Page 36
... easily adopted , nor can the attention be often interested in any thing that befalls them . To the subject thus originally indisposed to the reception of poetical embellishments , the writer brought little that could reconcile ...
... easily adopted , nor can the attention be often interested in any thing that befalls them . To the subject thus originally indisposed to the reception of poetical embellishments , the writer brought little that could reconcile ...
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... easily into the latter . The words do and did , which so much degrade in present estimation the line that admits them , were , in the time of Cowley , little censured or avoided : how often he used them , and with how bad an effect , at ...
... easily into the latter . The words do and did , which so much degrade in present estimation the line that admits them , were , in the time of Cowley , little censured or avoided : how often he used them , and with how bad an effect , at ...
Page 67
... easily find arguments to justify inclination , published ( in 1644 ) " The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce ; " which was followed by " The Judgment of Martin Bucer , concerning Divorce ; " and the next year , his Tetra- chordon ...
... easily find arguments to justify inclination , published ( in 1644 ) " The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce ; " which was followed by " The Judgment of Martin Bucer , concerning Divorce ; " and the next year , his Tetra- chordon ...
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