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Pagina 29
... Death should a thing so pleasant seem to thee , That thou should'st come to live it o'er again in me ? A Lover's Heart , a Hand Grenado . Woe to her stubborn heart , if once mine come Into the self - same room ; " Twill tear and blow up ...
... Death should a thing so pleasant seem to thee , That thou should'st come to live it o'er again in me ? A Lover's Heart , a Hand Grenado . Woe to her stubborn heart , if once mine come Into the self - same room ; " Twill tear and blow up ...
Pagina 31
... death hath now enfranchis'd thee ; Thou hast thy expansion now , and liberty ; Think , that a rusty piece discharg'd is flown In pieces , and the bullet is his own , And freely flies ; this to thy soul allow , Think thy shell broke ...
... death hath now enfranchis'd thee ; Thou hast thy expansion now , and liberty ; Think , that a rusty piece discharg'd is flown In pieces , and the bullet is his own , And freely flies ; this to thy soul allow , Think thy shell broke ...
Pagina 33
... death , although sad watch he keep , Doth practise dying by a little sleep ; Thou at this midnight seest me . It must be however confessed of these writers , that if they are upon common subjects often unne- cessarily and unpoetically ...
... death , although sad watch he keep , Doth practise dying by a little sleep ; Thou at this midnight seest me . It must be however confessed of these writers , that if they are upon common subjects often unne- cessarily and unpoetically ...
Pagina 36
... death of Hervey , there is much praise , but little passion ; a very just and ample delineation of such virtues as a studious pri- vacy admits , and such intellectual excellence as a mind not yet called forth to action can display . He ...
... death of Hervey , there is much praise , but little passion ; a very just and ample delineation of such virtues as a studious pri- vacy admits , and such intellectual excellence as a mind not yet called forth to action can display . He ...
Pagina 39
... death , with mingled souls and with broken hearts . The principal artifice by which The Mistress is filled with conceits , is very copiously displayed by Addison . Love is by Cowley , as by other poets , expressed metaphorically by ...
... death , with mingled souls and with broken hearts . The principal artifice by which The Mistress is filled with conceits , is very copiously displayed by Addison . Love is by Cowley , as by other poets , expressed metaphorically by ...
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Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 Samuel Johnson,George Birkbeck Norman Hill Fragmentweergave - 1968 |
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