The Lives of the English PoetsJones and Company, 1848 - 365 pagina's |
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... learning , but refused the less carefully suppressed , the omission of his husks , had the appearance of an instinctive ele- name in the register of St. Dunstan's parishgance , of a particular provision made by Nature gives reason to ...
... learning , but refused the less carefully suppressed , the omission of his husks , had the appearance of an instinctive ele- name in the register of St. Dunstan's parishgance , of a particular provision made by Nature gives reason to ...
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Samuel Johnson. proper to give some account . The metaphysical poets were men of learning , and to show their learning was their whole en- deavour : but , unluckily resolving to show it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry they only ...
Samuel Johnson. proper to give some account . The metaphysical poets were men of learning , and to show their learning was their whole en- deavour : but , unluckily resolving to show it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry they only ...
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... learning not very much frequented by common readers of poetry . Thus Cowley on Know- Yet great labour , directed by great abilities , is never wholly lost ; if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits , they like - ledge ...
... learning not very much frequented by common readers of poetry . Thus Cowley on Know- Yet great labour , directed by great abilities , is never wholly lost ; if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits , they like - ledge ...
Pagina 8
... learning and religion , And virtue and such ingredients , have made A mithridate , whose operation Keeps off , or cures what can be done or said . Though the following lines of Donne , on the last night of the year , have something in ...
... learning and religion , And virtue and such ingredients , have made A mithridate , whose operation Keeps off , or cures what can be done or said . Though the following lines of Donne , on the last night of the year , have something in ...
Pagina 12
... learning behind it ; the moralist , the politician , and the critic , mingle their influence even in this airy frolic of genius . To such a perfor- mance , Suckling could have brought the gayety but not the knowledge : Dryden could have ...
... learning behind it ; the moralist , the politician , and the critic , mingle their influence even in this airy frolic of genius . To such a perfor- mance , Suckling could have brought the gayety but not the knowledge : Dryden could have ...
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