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Page 11
... expressions sometimes raises horror , when they intend perhaps to be pathetic : As men in hell are from diseases free , So from all other ills am I , Free from their known formality : But all pains eminently lie in thee . COWLEY . They ...
... expressions sometimes raises horror , when they intend perhaps to be pathetic : As men in hell are from diseases free , So from all other ills am I , Free from their known formality : But all pains eminently lie in thee . COWLEY . They ...
Page 12
... expression , such varied similitude , such a suc cession of images , and such a dance of words , it is in vain to expect except from Cowley . His strength always appears in his agility ; his vola- tility is not the flutter of a light ...
... expression , such varied similitude , such a suc cession of images , and such a dance of words , it is in vain to expect except from Cowley . His strength always appears in his agility ; his vola- tility is not the flutter of a light ...
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... expression , and false in the other . Addison's representation is sufficiently indul- gent : that confusion of images may entertain for a moment ; but , being unnatural , it soon grows wearisome . Cowley delighted in it , as much as if ...
... expression , and false in the other . Addison's representation is sufficiently indul- gent : that confusion of images may entertain for a moment ; but , being unnatural , it soon grows wearisome . Cowley delighted in it , as much as if ...
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... expressions , nor much to his sentiments ; nothing was required of him , but not to write as Pindar would not have written . Of the Olympic Ode , the beginning is , I think , above the original in elegance , and the conclu- sion below ...
... expressions , nor much to his sentiments ; nothing was required of him , but not to write as Pindar would not have written . Of the Olympic Ode , the beginning is , I think , above the original in elegance , and the conclu- sion below ...
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... expressions be great and forcible , he weakens and makes ridiculous by branching it into small parts . That Gabri⚫1 was invested with the softest or brightest colours of the sky , we might have been told , and been dismissed to improve ...
... expressions be great and forcible , he weakens and makes ridiculous by branching it into small parts . That Gabri⚫1 was invested with the softest or brightest colours of the sky , we might have been told , and been dismissed to improve ...
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