LivesA. Miller, 1800 - English poetry |
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Page 10
... pleasure or suffer the uneasiness of solitude ; for he died at the Porch - house in Chertsey in 1667 , in the 49th ... pleasures in the minds of man , paid their court to temporary prejudices , has been at one time too much praised ...
... pleasure or suffer the uneasiness of solitude ; for he died at the Porch - house in Chertsey in 1667 , in the 49th ... pleasures in the minds of man , paid their court to temporary prejudices , has been at one time too much praised ...
Page 25
... pleasure . The artifices of inversion , by which the established order of words is changed , or of innovation , by which new words or new meanings of words are introduced , is practised , not by those who talk to be understood , bet by ...
... pleasure . The artifices of inversion , by which the established order of words is changed , or of innovation , by which new words or new meanings of words are introduced , is practised , not by those who talk to be understood , bet by ...
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... pleasure of verse arises from the known measure of the lines , and uniform structure of the stanzas , by which the voice is regulated , and the memory relieved . If the Pindarick style be , what Cowley thinks it , the highest and ...
... pleasure of verse arises from the known measure of the lines , and uniform structure of the stanzas , by which the voice is regulated , and the memory relieved . If the Pindarick style be , what Cowley thinks it , the highest and ...
Page 37
... pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected ; that which elevates must always surprise . What is perceived by slow degrees may gratify us with consciousness of improvement , but will never strike with the sense of pleasure ...
... pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected ; that which elevates must always surprise . What is perceived by slow degrees may gratify us with consciousness of improvement , but will never strike with the sense of pleasure ...
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... pleasure which arises from the observation of a man of judg- ment naturally right , forsaking bad copies by degrees , and advancing towards a better practice , as he gains more confidence in himself . In his translation of Virgil ...
... pleasure which arises from the observation of a man of judg- ment naturally right , forsaking bad copies by degrees , and advancing towards a better practice , as he gains more confidence in himself . In his translation of Virgil ...
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