Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works |
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... published till he had been some time at Cambridge . This comedy is of the pastoral kind , which requires no acquaintance with the living world , and therefore the time at which it was composed adds little to the wonders of Cowley's ...
... published till he had been some time at Cambridge . This comedy is of the pastoral kind , which requires no acquaintance with the living world , and therefore the time at which it was composed adds little to the wonders of Cowley's ...
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... published ; for he imagined , as he declared in his preface to a subsequent edition , that " poets are scarcely thought freemen of their company , without paying some duties , or obliging themselves to be true to love . " This ...
... published ; for he imagined , as he declared in his preface to a subsequent edition , that " poets are scarcely thought freemen of their company , without paying some duties , or obliging themselves to be true to love . " This ...
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... published his poems , with a preface , in which he seems to have inserted something suppressed in subsequent editions , which was inter- preted to denote some relaxation of his loyalty . In this preface he declares , that " his desire ...
... published his poems , with a preface , in which he seems to have inserted something suppressed in subsequent editions , which was inter- preted to denote some relaxation of his loyalty . In this preface he declares , that " his desire ...
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... published his preten- sions and his discontent in an ode called " The Complaint ; " in which he styles himself the melancholy Cowley . This met with the usual fortune of complaints , and seems to have excited more contempt than pity ...
... published his preten- sions and his discontent in an ode called " The Complaint ; " in which he styles himself the melancholy Cowley . This met with the usual fortune of complaints , and seems to have excited more contempt than pity ...
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... published " An Essay upon Gaming . " He seems to have divided his studies between law and poetry ; for , in 1636 , he translated the second book of the Æneid . Two years after , his father died ; and then , notwithstanding his ...
... published " An Essay upon Gaming . " He seems to have divided his studies between law and poetry ; for , in 1636 , he translated the second book of the Æneid . Two years after , his father died ; and then , notwithstanding his ...
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