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... Cowley , Dryden , and Pope . No trouble has been spared to ensure a correct text for the present edition , and it may in that respect challenge a comparison with any which have pre- ceded it . It would be easy to fill a page with an ...
... Cowley , Dryden , and Pope . No trouble has been spared to ensure a correct text for the present edition , and it may in that respect challenge a comparison with any which have pre- ceded it . It would be easy to fill a page with an ...
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... COWLEY . HE Life of. 1618-1667 . COWLEY . 1615-1668 . DENHAM . 1608-1674 . MILTON . 1612-1680 . BUTLER . 1647-1680 . ROCHESTER . 1634-1684 . ROSCOMMON . 1651-1685 . OTWAY . 1605-1687 . WALLER . 1667-1703 . POMFRET . 1638-1706 . DORSET ...
... COWLEY . HE Life of. 1618-1667 . COWLEY . 1615-1668 . DENHAM . 1608-1674 . MILTON . 1612-1680 . BUTLER . 1647-1680 . ROCHESTER . 1634-1684 . ROSCOMMON . 1651-1685 . OTWAY . 1605-1687 . WALLER . 1667-1703 . POMFRET . 1638-1706 . DORSET ...
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... Cowley , notwithstanding the penury of English biography , has been written by Dr. Sprat , an author whose preg ... Cowley ; for he writes with so little detail , that scarcely anything is distinctly known , but all is shown confused and ...
... Cowley , notwithstanding the penury of English biography , has been written by Dr. Sprat , an author whose preg ... Cowley ; for he writes with so little detail , that scarcely anything is distinctly known , but all is shown confused and ...
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... Cowley , Milton , and Pope , might be said " to lisp in numbers ; " and have given such early proofs , not only of powers of language , but of comprehension of things , as to more tardy minds seems scarcely credible . But of the learned ...
... Cowley , Milton , and Pope , might be said " to lisp in numbers ; " and have given such early proofs , not only of powers of language , but of comprehension of things , as to more tardy minds seems scarcely credible . But of the learned ...
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... Cowley , we are told by Barnes , * who had means enough of information , that , whatever he may talk of his own inflammability , and the variety of characters by which his heart was divided , he in reality was in love but once , and ...
... Cowley , we are told by Barnes , * who had means enough of information , that , whatever he may talk of his own inflammability , and the variety of characters by which his heart was divided , he in reality was in love but once , and ...
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