LivesA. Miller, 1800 - English poetry |
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... shew , And all with as much ease might taken be , As she at first took me : COWLEY . For ne'er did light so clear Among the waves appear , Though every night the sun himself set there . The poetical effect of a lover's name upon glass ...
... shew , And all with as much ease might taken be , As she at first took me : COWLEY . For ne'er did light so clear Among the waves appear , Though every night the sun himself set there . The poetical effect of a lover's name upon glass ...
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... shew precisely what Pindar spoke , but his manner of speaking . He was therefore not at all re- strained to his expressions , nor much to his sentiments ; nothing was required of him , but not to write as Pindar would not have written ...
... shew precisely what Pindar spoke , but his manner of speaking . He was therefore not at all re- strained to his expressions , nor much to his sentiments ; nothing was required of him , but not to write as Pindar would not have written ...
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... shew us that he know contains : what an egg Thou into the close nests of Time dost peep , And there with a piercing eye Through the firm shell and the thick white dost spy Years to come a - forming lie , Close in their sacred fecunaine ...
... shew us that he know contains : what an egg Thou into the close nests of Time dost peep , And there with a piercing eye Through the firm shell and the thick white dost spy Years to come a - forming lie , Close in their sacred fecunaine ...
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... shews that his eloquence is not merely satirical ; the rudeness of his invective is equalled by the grossness of his ... shew its servility ; but its elegance is less attainable . Having exposed the unskilfulness or selfishness of the ...
... shews that his eloquence is not merely satirical ; the rudeness of his invective is equalled by the grossness of his ... shew its servility ; but its elegance is less attainable . Having exposed the unskilfulness or selfishness of the ...
Page 66
... The king applauded his policy in escaping the punishment of death , by s seasonable shew of dying . " Cunningham's History of Great Britain , Vol . I. p . 14. E. the the parliament or Cromwell , might have forborn to talk 66 MILTON .
... The king applauded his policy in escaping the punishment of death , by s seasonable shew of dying . " Cunningham's History of Great Britain , Vol . I. p . 14. E. the the parliament or Cromwell , might have forborn to talk 66 MILTON .
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