The Lives of the English Poets, Volumes 1-2B. Tauchnitz, 1858 - 16 pagina's |
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Pagina 5
... 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 rhetoric . 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 rhetoric . One passage , however , seems not unworthy of some notice ...
Pagina 7
... 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 encomiastic , 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 encomiastic , there has been no appearance . There is a discourse ...
Pagina 11
... shew their learning was their whole endeavour : but , unluckily re- solving to shew it in rhyme , instead 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 re- solving to shew it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ...
Pagina 15
... shew . Each leaf did learned notions give , And th ' apples were demonstrative : So clear their colour and divine , The very shade they cast did other lights outshine . On Anacreon continuing a lover in his old age : Love was with thy ...
... shew . Each leaf did learned notions give , And th ' apples were demonstrative : So clear their colour and divine , The very shade they cast did other lights outshine . On Anacreon continuing a lover in his old age : Love was with thy ...
Pagina 19
... shew , And all with as much ease might taken be , As she at first took me : For ne'er did light so clear Among the waves appear , Though every night the sun himself set there . The poetical Effect of a Lover's name upon Glass . My name ...
... shew , And all with as much ease might taken be , As she at first took me : For ne'er did light so clear Among the waves appear , Though every night the sun himself set there . The poetical Effect of a Lover's name upon Glass . My name ...
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