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... sometimes in- vited , and fometimes forfaken ; fatigues his fancy , and ranfacks his memory , for images which may exhibit the gaiety of hope , or the gloominefs of defpair ; and dreffes his imaginary Chloris or Phyllis fometimes in ...
... sometimes in- vited , and fometimes forfaken ; fatigues his fancy , and ranfacks his memory , for images which may exhibit the gaiety of hope , or the gloominefs of defpair ; and dreffes his imaginary Chloris or Phyllis fometimes in ...
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... unfuitable to the original , as , The table , free for every guest , No doubt will thee admit , And feaft more upon thee , than thou on it . He He sometimes extends his author's thoughts without improving them . 68 COWLEY .
... unfuitable to the original , as , The table , free for every guest , No doubt will thee admit , And feaft more upon thee , than thou on it . He He sometimes extends his author's thoughts without improving them . 68 COWLEY .
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Samuel Johnson. He sometimes extends his author's thoughts without improving them . In the Olympio- nick an oath is mentioned in a fingle word , and Cowley spends three lines in fwearing by the Caftalian Stream . We are told of The ...
Samuel Johnson. He sometimes extends his author's thoughts without improving them . In the Olympio- nick an oath is mentioned in a fingle word , and Cowley spends three lines in fwearing by the Caftalian Stream . We are told of The ...
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... Sometimes he indulges himself in a digres- fion , always conceived with his natural exu- berance , and commonly , even where it is not long , continued till it is tedious : I ' th ' library a few choice authors stood , Yet ' twas well ...
... Sometimes he indulges himself in a digres- fion , always conceived with his natural exu- berance , and commonly , even where it is not long , continued till it is tedious : I ' th ' library a few choice authors stood , Yet ' twas well ...
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... Sometimes the weight of rhyme is laid upon a word too feeble to fuftain it : " Troy confounded falls " From all her glories : if it might have stood " By any power , by this right hand it shou'd . " And though my outward ftate ...
... Sometimes the weight of rhyme is laid upon a word too feeble to fuftain it : " Troy confounded falls " From all her glories : if it might have stood " By any power , by this right hand it shou'd . " And though my outward ftate ...
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The Lives of the English Poets: and a Criticism of Their Work Samuel Johnson Visualização completa - 1795 |
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