Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical PrefacesJohn Aikin Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Paternoster Row, 1820 - 807 pagine "The object of this work, which is entirely new, is to comprise, within a single volume, a chronological series of our classical poets, from Ben Johnson to Beattie, without mutilation or abridgment, with biographical and critical notices of their authors. The contents of this volume are so comprehensive, that few poems, it is believed, are omitted, except such as are of secondary merit, or unsuited to the perusal of youth" -- Page [i]. |
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Pagina 5
... taste for poetry ; and so soon did it both his applications . He had also the misfortune germinate in his youthful mind , that , while yet at of displeasing his party , by his revived comedy of school , in his fifteenth or sixteenth ...
... taste for poetry ; and so soon did it both his applications . He had also the misfortune germinate in his youthful mind , that , while yet at of displeasing his party , by his revived comedy of school , in his fifteenth or sixteenth ...
Pagina 12
... ' Tis hope is the most hopeless thing of all . Hope ! thou bold taster of delight , [ quite ! Who , whilst thou should'st but taste , devour'st it Thou bring'st us an estate , yet leav'st us poor 12 COWLEY . Against Hope.
... ' Tis hope is the most hopeless thing of all . Hope ! thou bold taster of delight , [ quite ! Who , whilst thou should'st but taste , devour'st it Thou bring'st us an estate , yet leav'st us poor 12 COWLEY . Against Hope.
Pagina 13
... taste ; If it take air before , its spirits waste . Hope ! Fortune's cheating lottery ! Where for one prize an hundred blanks there be ; Fond archer , Hope ! who tak'st thy aim so far , That still or short or wide thine arrows are ...
... taste ; If it take air before , its spirits waste . Hope ! Fortune's cheating lottery ! Where for one prize an hundred blanks there be ; Fond archer , Hope ! who tak'st thy aim so far , That still or short or wide thine arrows are ...
Pagina 15
... taste than any preceding compositions of the kind by English scholars . He took the degrees both of Bachelor and Master of Arts ; the latter in 1632 , when he left Cambridge . He renounced his original intention of entering the church ...
... taste than any preceding compositions of the kind by English scholars . He took the degrees both of Bachelor and Master of Arts ; the latter in 1632 , when he left Cambridge . He renounced his original intention of entering the church ...
Pagina 21
... taste 70 ( For most do taste through fond intemperate thirst :) Soon as the potion works , their human countenance , The express resemblance of the gods , is chang'd Into some brutish form of wolf , or bear , Or ounce , or tiger , hog ...
... taste 70 ( For most do taste through fond intemperate thirst :) Soon as the potion works , their human countenance , The express resemblance of the gods , is chang'd Into some brutish form of wolf , or bear , Or ounce , or tiger , hog ...
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