The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volumen 6F.C. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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... admired than understood , they some- times drew their conceits from recesses of learning not very much frequented by common readers of poe- try . Thus Cowley on Knowledge : " concert from recenes of learning The sacred tree ' midst the ...
... admired than understood , they some- times drew their conceits from recesses of learning not very much frequented by common readers of poe- try . Thus Cowley on Knowledge : " concert from recenes of learning The sacred tree ' midst the ...
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... admire No sun , but warm's devotion at our fire : He'd leave the trotting whipster , and prefer Our profound Vulcan ' bove that waggoner . For wants he heat , or light ? or would have store Of both ? ' tis here : and what can suns give ...
... admire No sun , but warm's devotion at our fire : He'd leave the trotting whipster , and prefer Our profound Vulcan ' bove that waggoner . For wants he heat , or light ? or would have store Of both ? ' tis here : and what can suns give ...
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... admired . What Cowley has written upon Hope shews an un- equalled fertility of invention : Hope , whose weak being ruin'd is , Alike if it succeed and if it miss ; Whom good or ill does equally confound , And both the horns of Fate's ...
... admired . What Cowley has written upon Hope shews an un- equalled fertility of invention : Hope , whose weak being ruin'd is , Alike if it succeed and if it miss ; Whom good or ill does equally confound , And both the horns of Fate's ...
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... admiration . HAVING thus endeavoured to exhibit a general representation of the style and sentiments of the me- taphysical poets , it is now proper to examine particu- larly the works of Cowley , who was almost the last of that race ...
... admiration . HAVING thus endeavoured to exhibit a general representation of the style and sentiments of the me- taphysical poets , it is now proper to examine particu- larly the works of Cowley , who was almost the last of that race ...
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... admired The Anacreontiques therefore of Cowley give now all the pleasure which they ever gave . If he was formed by nature for one kind of writing more than for another , his power seems to have been greatest in the familiar and the ...
... admired The Anacreontiques therefore of Cowley give now all the pleasure which they ever gave . If he was formed by nature for one kind of writing more than for another , his power seems to have been greatest in the familiar and the ...
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