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Page vii
... beauty of his lines . To this hour Spencer is a spring of English inexhaustible , from which all the leading poets have drawn , and which ja still fresh and sparkling as ever . Panegyric sinks before the name of Shakespeare . * His ...
... beauty of his lines . To this hour Spencer is a spring of English inexhaustible , from which all the leading poets have drawn , and which ja still fresh and sparkling as ever . Panegyric sinks before the name of Shakespeare . * His ...
Page xii
... beauty , morality , and grace of Pope , we may wisely forget that he ever wrote an unworthy line . It is not the purpose of this rapid sketch to more than allude to subsequent writers . Our own age has produced individuals , whose ...
... beauty , morality , and grace of Pope , we may wisely forget that he ever wrote an unworthy line . It is not the purpose of this rapid sketch to more than allude to subsequent writers . Our own age has produced individuals , whose ...
Page xiii
... beauty , through a mental wilderness that seemed to have been bared and blackened in the very wrath of nature . Like all men of rank , he had temptations to contend with , that severely try man . Fortune , flattering com- panionship ...
... beauty , through a mental wilderness that seemed to have been bared and blackened in the very wrath of nature . Like all men of rank , he had temptations to contend with , that severely try man . Fortune , flattering com- panionship ...
Page 49
... blessed youth Becomes as aged , and doth beg the alms Of palsied eld ; and when thou'rt old , and rich . Thou hast neither heat , affection , limb , nor beauty , What's yet in this Yet in this life To make 5 SHAKESPEARE . 49 Human Life.
... blessed youth Becomes as aged , and doth beg the alms Of palsied eld ; and when thou'rt old , and rich . Thou hast neither heat , affection , limb , nor beauty , What's yet in this Yet in this life To make 5 SHAKESPEARE . 49 Human Life.
Page 69
... beauty lies , The Cynosure of neighbouring eyes . Hard by a cottage chimney smokes , From betwixt two aged oaks , Where Corydon and Thyrsis met , Are at their savoury dinner set , Of herbs , and other country messes , Which the neat ...
... beauty lies , The Cynosure of neighbouring eyes . Hard by a cottage chimney smokes , From betwixt two aged oaks , Where Corydon and Thyrsis met , Are at their savoury dinner set , Of herbs , and other country messes , Which the neat ...
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