Specimens of the Early English Poets: To which is Prefixed, an Historical Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the English Poetry and Language, with a Biography of Each Poet, &c, Volume 3H. Washbourne, 1845 - English poetry |
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... taste . The theatres alone seem to have been the refuge of genius , nor has any æra of our history produced so many models of dramatic excellence : but the wretched spirit of criticism which prevailed in the closet is evinced by the ...
... taste . The theatres alone seem to have been the refuge of genius , nor has any æra of our history produced so many models of dramatic excellence : but the wretched spirit of criticism which prevailed in the closet is evinced by the ...
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... taste , which frees from death , And nectar , fragrant as your breath , By Hebe fill'd , who states the prime Of youth , and brails the wings of Time . Here in Adonis ' gardens grow What neither age or 20 REIGN OF JAMES I.
... taste , which frees from death , And nectar , fragrant as your breath , By Hebe fill'd , who states the prime Of youth , and brails the wings of Time . Here in Adonis ' gardens grow What neither age or 20 REIGN OF JAMES I.
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... taste . A SONNET . So glides along the wanton brook With gentle pace into the main , Courting the banks with amorous look He never means to see again . And so does Fortune use to smile Upon the short - liv'd favourite's face , Whose ...
... taste . A SONNET . So glides along the wanton brook With gentle pace into the main , Courting the banks with amorous look He never means to see again . And so does Fortune use to smile Upon the short - liv'd favourite's face , Whose ...
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... taste by that publication . Its title is Осса- sional Verses of Edward Lord Herbert , Baron of Cher- bury and Castle - island , deceased in August , 1648 , ” 1655 , 12mo . The following , selected from an Ode of thirty - five stanzas ...
... taste by that publication . Its title is Осса- sional Verses of Edward Lord Herbert , Baron of Cher- bury and Castle - island , deceased in August , 1648 , ” 1655 , 12mo . The following , selected from an Ode of thirty - five stanzas ...
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... taste and judgment . Their earliest composition was The Woman hater , " printed in 1707 , 4to . Beau- mont died in the twenty - ninth , and Fletcher in the forty- ninth year of his age . They were both educated in the University of ...
... taste and judgment . Their earliest composition was The Woman hater , " printed in 1707 , 4to . Beau- mont died in the twenty - ninth , and Fletcher in the forty- ninth year of his age . They were both educated in the University of ...
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