LivesA. Miller, 1800 - English poetry |
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... compositions , " The tragical History " of Pyramus and Thisbe , " written when he was ten years old ; and Con- stantia and Philetus , " written two years after . While he was yet at school he produced a comedy called " Love's Riddle ...
... compositions , " The tragical History " of Pyramus and Thisbe , " written when he was ten years old ; and Con- stantia and Philetus , " written two years after . While he was yet at school he produced a comedy called " Love's Riddle ...
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... compositions , some striking thoughts ; but they are not well wrought . His elegy on Sir Henry Wotton is vi- gorous ... composition unrivalled and alone : such gaiety of fancy , such facility of expression , such varied similitude ...
... compositions , some striking thoughts ; but they are not well wrought . His elegy on Sir Henry Wotton is vi- gorous ... composition unrivalled and alone : such gaiety of fancy , such facility of expression , such varied similitude ...
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... composition , which Cowley thinks Pancirolus might have counted in his list of the lost inven- tions of antiquity , and which he has made a bold and vigorous attempt to recover The purpose with which he has paraphrased an Olympic and ...
... composition , which Cowley thinks Pancirolus might have counted in his list of the lost inven- tions of antiquity , and which he has made a bold and vigorous attempt to recover The purpose with which he has paraphrased an Olympic and ...
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... composition be erroneous , yet many parts de- serve at least that admiration which is due to great comprehension of knowledge , and great fertility of fancy . The thoughts are often new , and often striking ; but the greatness of one ...
... composition be erroneous , yet many parts de- serve at least that admiration which is due to great comprehension of knowledge , and great fertility of fancy . The thoughts are often new , and often striking ; but the greatness of one ...
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... compositions . No author ever kept his verse and his prose at a greater distance from each other . His thoughts are natural , and his style has a smooth and placid equability , which has never yet obtained its due com- mendation ...
... compositions . No author ever kept his verse and his prose at a greater distance from each other . His thoughts are natural , and his style has a smooth and placid equability , which has never yet obtained its due com- mendation ...
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