The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volume 1 |
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... friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life of Cowley ; for , he writes with fo little detail , that scarcely any thing is diftinctly known ...
... friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life of Cowley ; for , he writes with fo little detail , that scarcely any thing is diftinctly known ...
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... friends in battle flain , And their untimely fate lament in vain : And when , at length , the cruel war fhall cease , On hard conditions may he buy his peace ; Nor let him then enjoy fupreme command , But fall untimely by fome hoftile ...
... friends in battle flain , And their untimely fate lament in vain : And when , at length , the cruel war fhall cease , On hard conditions may he buy his peace ; Nor let him then enjoy fupreme command , But fall untimely by fome hoftile ...
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... friends ) , he went into " France again , having made a copy of " verfes on Oliver's death . " This is no favourable reprefentation , yet even in this not much wrong can be dif- covered . How far he complied with the men in power , is ...
... friends ) , he went into " France again , having made a copy of " verfes on Oliver's death . " This is no favourable reprefentation , yet even in this not much wrong can be dif- covered . How far he complied with the men in power , is ...
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... friend , but by his friend's permiffion . Of the verses on Oliver's death , in which Wood's narrative feems to imply ... friends among the abettors of ufurpation . A doctor of phyfick however he was made at Oxford , in December , 1657 ...
... friend , but by his friend's permiffion . Of the verses on Oliver's death , in which Wood's narrative feems to imply ... friends among the abettors of ufurpation . A doctor of phyfick however he was made at Oxford , in December , 1657 ...
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... friend begin . In a fimile defcriptive of the morning : As glimmering ftars juft at th ' approach of day , Cafhier'd by troops , at last drop all away . The The drefs of Gabriel deferves attention : He took for 78 COWLEY .
... friend begin . In a fimile defcriptive of the morning : As glimmering ftars juft at th ' approach of day , Cafhier'd by troops , at last drop all away . The The drefs of Gabriel deferves attention : He took for 78 COWLEY .
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