The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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... shew , And all with as much ease might taken be , As she at first took me : For ne'er did light so clear Among the waves appear , Though every night the sun himself set there . COWLEY . 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 : For ne'er did light so clear Among the waves appear , Though every night the sun himself set there . COWLEY . The poetical Effect of a Lover's Name upon Glass ...
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... shews an un- equalled fertility of invention : Hope , whose weak being ruin'd is , Alike if it succeed and if it miss ; Whom good or ill does equally confound , And both the horns of Fate's dilemma wound ; Vain shadow ! which dost ...
... shews an un- equalled fertility of invention : Hope , whose weak being ruin'd is , Alike if it succeed and if it miss ; Whom good or ill does equally confound , And both the horns of Fate's dilemma wound ; Vain shadow ! which dost ...
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... shews more cost than art . Jewels at nose and lips but ill appear ; Rather than all things wit , let none be there . Several lights will not be seen , If there be nothing else between . Men doubt , because they stand so thick i ' th ...
... shews more cost than art . Jewels at nose and lips but ill appear ; Rather than all things wit , let none be there . Several lights will not be seen , If there be nothing else between . Men doubt , because they stand so thick i ' th ...
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... shew such skill as raises our wish for more examples . The lines from Jersey are a very curious and pleasing specimen of the familiar descending to the burlesque . His two metrical disquisitions for and against Reason , are no mean ...
... shew such skill as raises our wish for more examples . The lines from Jersey are a very curious and pleasing specimen of the familiar descending to the burlesque . His two metrical disquisitions for and against Reason , are no mean ...
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... shews nothing of the mould of time , and the sentiments are at no great distance from our present habitudes of thought . Real mirth must always be natural , and nature is uniform . Men have been wise in very different modes ; but they ...
... shews nothing of the mould of time , and the sentiments are at no great distance from our present habitudes of thought . Real mirth must always be natural , and nature is uniform . Men have been wise in very different modes ; but they ...
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