The lives of the English poetsLuke Hansard & Sons, 1810 |
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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 right Porphyrian tree which did true logic shew . Each leaf did ...
... 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 right Porphyrian tree which did true logic shew . Each leaf did ...
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... common topick , the dan- ger of procrastination , is thus illustrated : That which I should have begun In my youth's morning , now late must be done ; And I , as giddy travellers must do , Which stray or sleep all day , and having lost ...
... common topick , the dan- ger of procrastination , is thus illustrated : That which I should have begun In my youth's morning , now late must be done ; And I , as giddy travellers must do , Which stray or sleep all day , and having lost ...
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... common subject , which poets have contended to adorn . Dryden's Night is well known ; Donne's is as follows : Thou seest me here at midnight , now all rest : Time's dead low - water ; when all minds divest To - morrow's business ; when ...
... common subject , which poets have contended to adorn . Dryden's Night is well known ; Donne's is as follows : Thou seest me here at midnight , now all rest : Time's dead low - water ; when all minds divest To - morrow's business ; when ...
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... common authors may justly think not only above their attainment , but above their ambition . To the Miscellanies succeed the Anacreontiques , or paraphrastical translations of some little poems , which pass , however justly , under the ...
... common authors may justly think not only above their attainment , but above their ambition . To the Miscellanies succeed the Anacreontiques , or paraphrastical translations of some little poems , which pass , however justly , under the ...
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... common prostitute she lately grew , And with the spurious brood loads now the press ; Laborious effects of idleness . As the Davideis affords only four books , though intended to consist of twelve , there is no opportu- nity for such ...
... common prostitute she lately grew , And with the spurious brood loads now the press ; Laborious effects of idleness . As the Davideis affords only four books , though intended to consist of twelve , there is no opportu- nity for such ...
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