LivesA. Miller, 1800 - English poetry |
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... write this in pain , and can say no more : Verbum sapienti . ” He did not long enjoy the pleasure or suffer the uneasiness of solitude ; for he died at the Porch - house in Chertsey in 1667 , in the 49th year of his age . He was buried ...
... write this in pain , and can say no more : Verbum sapienti . ” He did not long enjoy the pleasure or suffer the uneasiness of solitude ; for he died at the Porch - house in Chertsey in 1667 , in the 49th year of his age . He was buried ...
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... write on their plan , it was at least necessary to read and think . No man could be born a metaphysical poet , nor assume the dignity of a writer , by descriptions copied from descriptions , by imitations borrowed from imitations ...
... write on their plan , it was at least necessary to read and think . No man could be born a metaphysical poet , nor assume the dignity of a writer , by descriptions copied from descriptions , by imitations borrowed from imitations ...
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... write to be admired . The Anacreontiques therefore of Cowley give now all the pleasure which they ever gave . If he was formed by nature for one kind of writing more than for another , his power seems to have been greatest in the ...
... write to be admired . The Anacreontiques therefore of Cowley give now all the pleasure which they ever gave . If he was formed by nature for one kind of writing more than for another , his power seems to have been greatest in the ...
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... write as Pindar would not have written . Of the Olympic Ode the beginning is , I think , above the original in elegance , and the conclusion below it in strength . The connection is supplied with great perspicuity , and the thoughts ...
... write as Pindar would not have written . Of the Olympic Ode the beginning is , I think , above the original in elegance , and the conclusion below it in strength . The connection is supplied with great perspicuity , and the thoughts ...
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... write like Pindar . The rights of antiquity were invaded , and disorder tried to break into the Latin : a poem * on the Sheldonian Theatre , in which all kinds of verse are shaken together , is un- happily inserted in the Muse Anglicana ...
... write like Pindar . The rights of antiquity were invaded , and disorder tried to break into the Latin : a poem * on the Sheldonian Theatre , in which all kinds of verse are shaken together , is un- happily inserted in the Muse Anglicana ...
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