LivesA. Miller, 1800 - English poetry |
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... night the sun himself set there . The poetical effect of a lover's name upon glass : My name engrav'd herein Doth contribute my firmness to this glass ; Which , ever since that charm , hath been As hard as that which grav'd it was ...
... night the sun himself set there . The poetical effect of a lover's name upon glass : My name engrav'd herein Doth contribute my firmness to this glass ; Which , ever since that charm , hath been As hard as that which grav'd it was ...
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... Night has been a common subject , which poets have contended to adorn . Dryden's Night is well known ; Donne's is as follows : Thou seest me here at midnight , now all rest : Time's dead low - water ; when all minds divest To - morrow's ...
... Night has been a common subject , which poets have contended to adorn . Dryden's Night is well known ; Donne's is as follows : Thou seest me here at midnight , now all rest : Time's dead low - water ; when all minds divest To - morrow's ...
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... night ! The stars have not a possibility Of blessing thee ; If things then from their end we happy call , ' Tis Hope is the most hopeless thing of all . Hope , thou bold taster of delight , Who , whilst thou should'st but taste , devour ...
... night ! The stars have not a possibility Of blessing thee ; If things then from their end we happy call , ' Tis Hope is the most hopeless thing of all . Hope , thou bold taster of delight , Who , whilst thou should'st but taste , devour ...
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... nights ; But down like lightning , which him struck , he came , And roar'd at his first plunge into the flame . Lucifer makes a speech to the inferior agents of mischief , in which there is something of heathenism , and therefore of ...
... nights ; But down like lightning , which him struck , he came , And roar'd at his first plunge into the flame . Lucifer makes a speech to the inferior agents of mischief , in which there is something of heathenism , and therefore of ...
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... night . Jonson and Donne , as Dr. Hurd remarks , were then in the highest esteem . It is related by Clarendon , that Cowley always acknowledges his obligation to the learning and industry of Jonson ; but I have found no traces of Jonson ...
... night . Jonson and Donne , as Dr. Hurd remarks , were then in the highest esteem . It is related by Clarendon , that Cowley always acknowledges his obligation to the learning and industry of Jonson ; but I have found no traces of Jonson ...
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