 | Abraham Cowley - 1806 - 294 pages
...colours of flowers, is not perused with more sluggish frigidity. The compositions are such as might have been written for penance by a hermit, or for hire by a philosophical rhymer who had only heard of another sex ; for they turn the mind only on the writer,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 336 pages
...colours of flowers, is not perused with more sluggish frigidity. The compositions are such as might have been written for penance by a hermit, or for hire by a philosophical rhymer who had only heard of another sex ; for they turn the mind only on the writer,... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1809 - 296 pages
...for penance by a hermit, or for hire by a philosophical rhymer who had only heard of another sex ; for they turn the mind only on the writer, whom, without thinking on a woman but as the subject for his task, we sometimes esteem as learned, and sometimes despise as trifling, always admire... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...colours of flowers, is not perused with more sluggish frigidity. The compositions are such as might have been written for penance by a hermit, or for hire by a philosophical rhymer who had only heard of another sex ; for they turn the mind only on the writer,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...colours of flowers, is not perused with more sluggish frigidity. The compositions are such as might have been written for penance by a hermit, or for hire by a philosophical rhymer who had only heard of another sex ; fcr they turn the mind only on the writer,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 486 pages
...colours of flowers, is not perused with more sluggish frigidity. The compositions are such as might have been written for penance by a hermit, or for hire by a philosophical rhymer who had only heard of another sex ; for they turn the mind only on the writer,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 pages
...colours of flowers, is not perused with more sluggish frigidity. The compositions are such as might have been written for penance by a hermit, or for hire by a philosophical rhymer who had only heard of another sex; for they turn the mind only on the writer,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 466 pages
...colours of flowers, is not perused with more sluggish frigidity. The compositions are such as might have been written for penance by a hermit, or for hire by a philosophical rhymer who had only heard of another sex; for they turn the mind only on the writer,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 476 pages
...colours of flowers, is not perused with more sluggish frigidity. The compositions are such as might have been written for penance by a hermit, or for hire by a philosophical rhymer who had only heard of another sex ; for they turn the mind only on the writer,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 348 pages
...colours of flowers, is not perused with more sluggish frigidity. The compositions are such as might have been written for penance by a hermit, or for hire by a philosophical rhymer who had only heard of another sex ; for they turn the mind only on the writer,... | |
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The compositions are such as might have been written for penance by a hermit, or for hire by a philosophical rhymer who had only heard of another sex... 
