 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 532 pages
...courteous knights. But when we look too near, the shades decay, And all the pleasing landscape fades away. Great Cowley then (a mighty genius) wrote, O'er-run...thought : His turns too closely on the reader press : ''Tie more had pleas'd us, had he pleas'd us less. One glittering thought no sooner strikes our eyes... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 318 pages
...courteous knights. But when we look too near, the shades decay, And all the pleasing landscape fades away. Great Cowley then, a mighty genius, wrote, O'er-run with wit, and lavish of his thought : His turns tooeiosely on the reader press : He more had pleas'd us, had he pleas'd us less. One glittering thought... | |
 | George Dyer - 1814 - 566 pages
...Cowley's poetry : next great Cowley wrote, O'er -run with wit, and prodigal of thought : His thoughts too closely on the reader press ; He more had pleas'd us, had he pleas'd us less. * The Characters of the English Poets, in Addison's Works. Among other writers, more immediately literary,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 304 pages
...courteous knights ; But when we look too near the shades decay, And all the pleasing landscape fades away. Great Cowley then (a mighty genius !) wrote, O'er-run...turns too closely on the reader press ; He more had pleased us had he pleased us less : One glittering thought no sooner strikes our eyes With silent wonder,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...is to be blam'd, but much juggling, for the world cannot be governed without H. — Selden. • D. His turns too closely on the reader press; He more had pleas'd us had he pleased us less: One glittering thought no sooner strikes our eyes With silent wonder, but new wonders... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 358 pages
...more had pleas'd us had he pleased us less: His turns too closely on the reader press; One glitterin g thought no sooner strikes our eyes With silent wonder, but new wonders rise; As in the milky-way a shining white O'erflows the heav'ns with one continued light. Whilst jointly... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1830 - 294 pages
...courteous knights. But when we look too near, the shades decay, And all the pleasing landscape fades away. Great Cowley then, a mighty genius, wrote, O'errun...; He more had pleas'd us, had he pleas'd us less. 2 Dr. Johnson states, on the authority of Spence, that when Addison wrote this very confident and discriminative... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1837 - 548 pages
...courteous knights. But when we look too near, the shades decay, And all the pleasing landscape fades away. Great Cowley then, a mighty genius, wrote, O'errun...our eyes With silent wonder, but new wonders rise. As in the milky way a shining white O'crflows the heav'ns with one continued light ; That not a single... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1853 - 600 pages
...when we look too near, the shades decay, And all the pleasing landscape fades away. Great Cowley then5 (a mighty genius) wrote, O'er-run with wit, and lavish of his thought : 1 Old Spenser. Addison is said to have confessed that when he wrote this judgment, he had never read... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 596 pages
...courteous knights ; But when we look too near, the shades decay, And all the pleasing landscape fades away. Great Cowley then (a mighty genius) wrote, O'er-run...turns too closely on the reader press ; He more had pleased us, had he pleased us less. One glittering thought no sooner strikes our eyes With silent wonder,... | |
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Great Cowley then (a mighty genius) wrote, O'errun with wit, and lavish of his thought: His turns too closely on the reader press; He more had pleased us, had he pleased us less. One glittering thought no sooner strikes our eyes With silent wonder, but... 
