LivesA. Miller, 1800 - English poetry |
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Page 11
... reader , far from wondering that he missed them , wonders more frequently by what perverseness of industry they were ever found . But Wit , abstracted from its effects upon the hearer , may be more rigorously and philosophically ...
... reader , far from wondering that he missed them , wonders more frequently by what perverseness of industry they were ever found . But Wit , abstracted from its effects upon the hearer , may be more rigorously and philosophically ...
Page 15
... reader may perhaps cry out - Confusion everse confounded . Here lies a she sun , and a he moon here , She gives the best light to his sphere , Or each is both , and all , and so They unto one another nothing owe . DONNE . Who Who but ...
... reader may perhaps cry out - Confusion everse confounded . Here lies a she sun , and a he moon here , She gives the best light to his sphere , Or each is both , and all , and so They unto one another nothing owe . DONNE . Who Who but ...
Page 26
... reader is commonly surprised into some improvement . But , con- sidered as the verses of a lover , no man that has ever loved will much com- mend them . They are neither courtly nor pathetick , have neither gallantry nor fondness . His ...
... reader is commonly surprised into some improvement . But , con- sidered as the verses of a lover , no man that has ever loved will much com- mend them . They are neither courtly nor pathetick , have neither gallantry nor fondness . His ...
Page 27
... reader of less skill seem thrown together by chance , are concatenated without any abruption . Though the English ode cannot be called a translation , it may be very properly consulted as a commentary . The spirit of Pindar is indeed ...
... reader of less skill seem thrown together by chance , are concatenated without any abruption . Though the English ode cannot be called a translation , it may be very properly consulted as a commentary . The spirit of Pindar is indeed ...
Page 28
... reader too that sits not sure . The fault of Cowley , and perhaps of all the writers of the metaphysical race , is that of pursuing his thoughts to the last ramifications , by which he loses the grandeur of generality ; for of the ...
... reader too that sits not sure . The fault of Cowley , and perhaps of all the writers of the metaphysical race , is that of pursuing his thoughts to the last ramifications , by which he loses the grandeur of generality ; for of the ...
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