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Page 51
... labour'd birth of slavish brains , Not the effect of poetry , but pains ; Cheap vulgar arts , whose narrowness affords No flight for thoughts , but poorly stick at words . A new and nobler way thou dost pursue , To make translations and ...
... labour'd birth of slavish brains , Not the effect of poetry , but pains ; Cheap vulgar arts , whose narrowness affords No flight for thoughts , but poorly stick at words . A new and nobler way thou dost pursue , To make translations and ...
Page 52
... must be numbered among those felicities which cannot be produced at will by wit and labour , but must arise unexpectedly in some hour pro- pitious to poetry . He appears to have been one of the first that 52 DENHAM .
... must be numbered among those felicities which cannot be produced at will by wit and labour , but must arise unexpectedly in some hour pro- pitious to poetry . He appears to have been one of the first that 52 DENHAM .
Page 61
... labour and intense study , which , " says he , " I take to be my portion in this life , joined with a strong propensity of nature , " he might " leave something so written to aftertimes , as they shonld not willingly let it die . " It ...
... labour and intense study , which , " says he , " I take to be my portion in this life , joined with a strong propensity of nature , " he might " leave something so written to aftertimes , as they shonld not willingly let it die . " It ...
Page 64
... labour to turn philosophy from the study of nature to speculations upon life ; but the innovators whom I oppose are turning off attention from life to nature . They seem to think that we are placed here to watch the growth of plants ...
... labour to turn philosophy from the study of nature to speculations upon life ; but the innovators whom I oppose are turning off attention from life to nature . They seem to think that we are placed here to watch the growth of plants ...
Page 66
... labour the agony of his wit having escaped narrowly , instead of well - sized periods , he greets us with a quantity of thumb - ring poesies . And thus ends this section , or rather dissection , of himself . " Such is the controversial ...
... labour the agony of his wit having escaped narrowly , instead of well - sized periods , he greets us with a quantity of thumb - ring poesies . And thus ends this section , or rather dissection , of himself . " Such is the controversial ...
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