LivesA. Miller, 1800 - English poetry |
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... shew him to have been above the affectation of unseasonable elegance , and to have known that the business of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetorick . One passage , however , seems not unworthy of some notice ...
... shew him to have been above the affectation of unseasonable elegance , and to have known that the business of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetorick . One passage , however , seems not unworthy of some notice ...
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... shew his loyalty . at the hazard of his friend , but by his friend's permission . Of the verses on Oliver's death , in which Wood's narrative seems to imply something encomiastick , there has been no appearance . There is a discourse ...
... shew his loyalty . at the hazard of his friend , but by his friend's permission . Of the verses on Oliver's death , in which Wood's narrative seems to imply something encomiastick , there has been no appearance . There is a discourse ...
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... shew their learning was their whole endeavour ; but , unluckily resolving to shew it in rhyme , in- stead of writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ...
... shew their learning was their whole endeavour ; but , unluckily resolving to shew it in rhyme , in- stead of writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ...
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... common readers of poetry . Thus Cowley on Knowledge : The sacred tree midst the fair orchard grew ; The phoenix Truth did on it rest , And built his perfum'd nest , That That right Porphyrian tree which did true logic shew . 12 COWLEY .
... common readers of poetry . Thus Cowley on Knowledge : The sacred tree midst the fair orchard grew ; The phoenix Truth did on it rest , And built his perfum'd nest , That That right Porphyrian tree which did true logic shew . 12 COWLEY .
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... shew'd me you . DONNY . Yet more abtruse and profound is Donne's reflection upon Man as a Microcosm . If men be worlds , there is in every one Something to answer in some proportion All All the world's riches : and in good men , COWLEY .
... shew'd me you . DONNY . Yet more abtruse and profound is Donne's reflection upon Man as a Microcosm . If men be worlds , there is in every one Something to answer in some proportion All All the world's riches : and in good men , COWLEY .
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