The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volumen1W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... effects upon the hearer , may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concors ; a combination of dissimilar images , or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently un- like . Of wit , thus ...
... effects upon the hearer , may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concors ; a combination of dissimilar images , or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently un- like . Of wit , thus ...
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... effect is sudden astonishment , and the second rational admiration . Sublimity is produced by aggregation , and littleness by dispersion . Great thoughts are always general , and consist in positions not limited by exceptions , and in ...
... effect is sudden astonishment , and the second rational admiration . Sublimity is produced by aggregation , and littleness by dispersion . Great thoughts are always general , and consist in positions not limited by exceptions , and in ...
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... effect of a lover's name upon glass : My name , engrav'd herein , Doth contribute my firmness to this glass ; Which , ever since that charm , hath been As hard as that which grav'd it was . DONNE . Their conceits were sentiments slight ...
... effect of a lover's name upon glass : My name , engrav'd herein , Doth contribute my firmness to this glass ; Which , ever since that charm , hath been As hard as that which grav'd it was . DONNE . Their conceits were sentiments slight ...
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... effect ; the whole system of life , while the theocracy was yet visible , has an appear- ance so different from all other scenes of human action , that the reader of the sacred volume habitually considers it as the peculiar mode of ...
... effect ; the whole system of life , while the theocracy was yet visible , has an appear- ance so different from all other scenes of human action , that the reader of the sacred volume habitually considers it as the peculiar mode of ...
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... effects of idleness . As the Davideis affords only four books , though intended to consist of twelve , there is no opportunity for such criti- cism as epic poems commonly supply . The plan of the whole work is very imperfectly shewn by ...
... effects of idleness . As the Davideis affords only four books , though intended to consist of twelve , there is no opportunity for such criti- cism as epic poems commonly supply . The plan of the whole work is very imperfectly shewn by ...
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