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... Cowley . Milton is generally content to express the thoughts of the ancients in their language ; Cowley , without much loss of purity or elegance , accommodates the diction of Rome to his own conceptions . At the Restoration , after all ...
... Cowley . Milton is generally content to express the thoughts of the ancients in their language ; Cowley , without much loss of purity or elegance , accommodates the diction of Rome to his own conceptions . At the Restoration , after all ...
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... COWLEY COWLEY All arm'd in brass the richest dress of war ( A dismal glorious sight ) , he shone afar . The sun himself started with sudden fright , To see his beams return so dismal bright . An universal consternation : COWLEY His ...
... COWLEY COWLEY All arm'd in brass the richest dress of war ( A dismal glorious sight ) , he shone afar . The sun himself started with sudden fright , To see his beams return so dismal bright . An universal consternation : COWLEY His ...
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... Cowley certainly errs , by introducing pedantry far more frequently than Tasso . I know not , indeed , why they should be compared ; for the resem- blance of Cowley's work to Tasso's is only that they ... Cowley's poetry it will be COWLEY 45.
... Cowley certainly errs , by introducing pedantry far more frequently than Tasso . I know not , indeed , why they should be compared ; for the resem- blance of Cowley's work to Tasso's is only that they ... Cowley's poetry it will be COWLEY 45.
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 Lives of the English Poets, Samuel Johnson Volumes 83-84 of Oxford world's classics Issues 83-84 of World's classics |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Contributor | Arthur Waugh |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1952 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 16 Jul 2009 |
| Length | 472 pages |
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