The lives of the most eminent English poetsJ. Buckland, 1787 |
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... known , but all is fhewn confused and enlarged through the mift of pa- negyrick . ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in the year one thousand fix hundred and eighteen . His father was a grocer , whofe condition Dr. Sprat conceals un- der the ...
... known , but all is fhewn confused and enlarged through the mift of pa- negyrick . ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in the year one thousand fix hundred and eighteen . His father was a grocer , whofe condition Dr. Sprat conceals un- der the ...
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... known that the bufinefs of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetorick . One paffage , however , seems not unworthy of some notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agi- tation : " The Scotch treaty , " fays he ...
... known that the bufinefs of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetorick . One paffage , however , seems not unworthy of some notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agi- tation : " The Scotch treaty , " fays he ...
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... known . He that miffes his end will never be as much pleased as he that attains it , even when he can impute no part of his failure to himself ; and when the end is to please the multitude , no man , perhaps , has a right , in things ...
... known . He that miffes his end will never be as much pleased as he that attains it , even when he can impute no part of his failure to himself ; and when the end is to please the multitude , no man , perhaps , has a right , in things ...
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... known . I must therefore recommend the perufal of his work , to which my narration can be confidered only as a flender supplement . COWLEY , like other poets who have written with narrow views , and , instead of tracing intellectual ...
... known . I must therefore recommend the perufal of his work , to which my narration can be confidered only as a flender supplement . COWLEY , like other poets who have written with narrow views , and , instead of tracing intellectual ...
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... the cold too great . And where these are temperate known , The foil's all barren fand , or rocky stone . COWLEY . A lover , burnt up by his affection , is compared to Egypt : The 1 The fate of Egypt I sustain , And never COWLEY . 29.
... the cold too great . And where these are temperate known , The foil's all barren fand , or rocky stone . COWLEY . A lover , burnt up by his affection , is compared to Egypt : The 1 The fate of Egypt I sustain , And never COWLEY . 29.
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