LivesA. Miller, 1800 - English poetry |
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... beauties of Flowers in various measures ; and in the fifth and sixth ; the uses of trees in heroić humbers . At the same time were produced from the same university , the two , great : Poets , Cowley and Milton , of dissimilar genius ...
... beauties of Flowers in various measures ; and in the fifth and sixth ; the uses of trees in heroić humbers . At the same time were produced from the same university , the two , great : Poets , Cowley and Milton , of dissimilar genius ...
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... beauties which common authors may justly think not only above their attainment , but above their ambition . To the Miscellanies succeeded the Anacreontiques , or paraphrastical transla- tions of some little poems , which pass , however ...
... beauties which common authors may justly think not only above their attainment , but above their ambition . To the Miscellanies succeeded the Anacreontiques , or paraphrastical transla- tions of some little poems , which pass , however ...
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... beauties deepest red , An harmless flattering meteor shone for hair , And fell adown his shoulders with loose care ; ble cuts out a silk mantle from the skies , Where the most sprightly azure pleas'd the eyes : This he with starry ...
... beauties deepest red , An harmless flattering meteor shone for hair , And fell adown his shoulders with loose care ; ble cuts out a silk mantle from the skies , Where the most sprightly azure pleas'd the eyes : This he with starry ...
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... beauties of the lofty Merah and the gentle Michol are very Justly conceived and strongly painted . Rymer has declared the Davideis superior to the Jerusalem of Tasso , " which , " says he , " the poet , with all his care , has not ...
... beauties of the lofty Merah and the gentle Michol are very Justly conceived and strongly painted . Rymer has declared the Davideis superior to the Jerusalem of Tasso , " which , " says he , " the poet , with all his care , has not ...
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... beauties of this great poet , sometimes force their own judgement into false approbation of his little pieces , and prevail upon themselves to think that admirable which is only singular . All that short com- positions can commonly ...
... beauties of this great poet , sometimes force their own judgement into false approbation of his little pieces , and prevail upon themselves to think that admirable which is only singular . All that short com- positions can commonly ...
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