The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volume 1 |
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... must be supposed to have en- gaged in it with lefs provision of materials than might have been accumulated by longer premeditation . Of the later writers at least I might , by attention and enquiry , have gleaned many particulars ...
... must be supposed to have en- gaged in it with lefs provision of materials than might have been accumulated by longer premeditation . Of the later writers at least I might , by attention and enquiry , have gleaned many particulars ...
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... must therefore recommend the perufal of his work , to which my narra tion can be confidered only as a flender fupplement . COWLEY , like other poets who have written with narrow views , and , instead of tracing intellectual pleafures in ...
... must therefore recommend the perufal of his work , to which my narra tion can be confidered only as a flender fupplement . COWLEY , like other poets who have written with narrow views , and , instead of tracing intellectual pleafures in ...
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... must needs be very much , Which makes me of your hand afraid , Cordials of pity give me now , For I too weak of purgings grow . COWLEY . The World and a Clock : Mahol , th ' inferior world's fantastic face , Thro ' all the turns of ...
... must needs be very much , Which makes me of your hand afraid , Cordials of pity give me now , For I too weak of purgings grow . COWLEY . The World and a Clock : Mahol , th ' inferior world's fantastic face , Thro ' all the turns of ...
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... must be done ; And I , as giddy travellers muit do , Which ftray or fleep all day , and having loft Light and ftrength , dark and tir'd , muit then ride post . All that man has to do is to live and die ; the fum of humanity is ...
... must be done ; And I , as giddy travellers muit do , Which ftray or fleep all day , and having loft Light and ftrength , dark and tir'd , muit then ride post . All that man has to do is to live and die ; the fum of humanity is ...
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... must shut them then Again by death , although fad watch he keep , Doth practife dying by a little fleep , Thou at this midnight feeft me . IT must be however confeffed of these writers , that if they are upon common fub- jects often ...
... must shut them then Again by death , although fad watch he keep , Doth practife dying by a little fleep , Thou at this midnight feeft me . IT must be however confeffed of these writers , that if they are upon common fub- jects often ...
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