The lives of the most eminent English poetsJ. Buckland, 1787 |
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... character ; but I have been led beyond my intention , I hope , by the honest desire of giving use- ful pleasure . In this minute kind of Hiftory , the fucceffion of facts is not easily discovered ; and I am not without fufpicion that ...
... character ; but I have been led beyond my intention , I hope , by the honest desire of giving use- ful pleasure . In this minute kind of Hiftory , the fucceffion of facts is not easily discovered ; and I am not without fufpicion that ...
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... character , not the life of Cowley ; for he writes with fo little detail , that scarcely any thing is diftinctly known , but all is fhewn confused and enlarged through the mift of pa- negyrick . ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in the year one ...
... character , not the life of Cowley ; for he writes with fo little detail , that scarcely any thing is diftinctly known , but all is fhewn confused and enlarged through the mift of pa- negyrick . ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in the year one ...
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... characters by which his heart was divided , he in reality was in love but once , and then never had refolution to tell his paffion . This confideration cannot but abate , in fome mea- fure , the reader's esteem for the work and the ...
... characters by which his heart was divided , he in reality was in love but once , and then never had refolution to tell his paffion . This confideration cannot but abate , in fome mea- fure , the reader's esteem for the work and the ...
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... character of Phy- fician , ftill , according to Sprat , with intention " to " diffemble the main defign of his coming over , " and , as Mr. Wood relates , " complying with the men " then in power ( which was much taken notice of by ...
... character of Phy- fician , ftill , according to Sprat , with intention " to " diffemble the main defign of his coming over , " and , as Mr. Wood relates , " complying with the men " then in power ( which was much taken notice of by ...
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... of " Coleman - ftreet , " and that , becaufe a merry fharking fellow about the town , named Cutter , is a principal character in it . VOL . II . C ment . ment . From the charge of difaffection he exculpates himself COWLEY . 17.
... of " Coleman - ftreet , " and that , becaufe a merry fharking fellow about the town , named Cutter , is a principal character in it . VOL . II . C ment . ment . From the charge of difaffection he exculpates himself COWLEY . 17.
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