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Milton tried the metaphysic- style only in his lines upon Hobson the Carrier. :
Cowley adopted it. and excelled his predecessors, having as much sentiment
and more musick. Suckling neither improved versification, nor abounded in
conceits.
Milton tried the metaphysic- style only in his lines upon Hobson the Carrier. :
Cowley adopted it. and excelled his predecessors, having as much sentiment
and more musick. Suckling neither improved versification, nor abounded in
conceits.
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Though the following lines of Donne, on the last night of the year, have
something in them too scholastick, they are not inelegant : This twilight of two
years, not past nor next, Some emblem is of me, or I of this, Who, meteor-like, of
stuff and form ...
Though the following lines of Donne, on the last night of the year, have
something in them too scholastick, they are not inelegant : This twilight of two
years, not past nor next, Some emblem is of me, or I of this, Who, meteor-like, of
stuff and form ...
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If the lines are not easily understood, they may be read again. On a round ball A
workman, that hath copies by, can lay An Europe, Afric, and an Asia, And quickly
make that, which was nothing, all. So doth each tear, Which thee doth wear, ...
If the lines are not easily understood, they may be read again. On a round ball A
workman, that hath copies by, can lay An Europe, Afric, and an Asia, And quickly
make that, which was nothing, all. So doth each tear, Which thee doth wear, ...
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Who would imagine it possible that in a very few lines so many remote ideas
could be brought together ? Since 'tis my doom, Love's undershrieve, * Why this
reprieve ? Why doth my she advowson fly Incumbency ? To sell thyself dost thou
...
Who would imagine it possible that in a very few lines so many remote ideas
could be brought together ? Since 'tis my doom, Love's undershrieve, * Why this
reprieve ? Why doth my she advowson fly Incumbency ? To sell thyself dost thou
...
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Cowley. Upon a paper written with the juice of lemon, and read by the fire :
Nothing yet in thee is seen, But when a genial heat warms thee within, A new-
born wood of various lines there grows ; Here buds an L, and there a B, Here
spouts a V, ...
Cowley. Upon a paper written with the juice of lemon, and read by the fire :
Nothing yet in thee is seen, But when a genial heat warms thee within, A new-
born wood of various lines there grows ; Here buds an L, and there a B, Here
spouts a V, ...
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