The lives of the English poetsRivington, 1858 - 414 pages |
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... character , not the life , of Cowley ; for he writes with so little detail , that scarcely any thing is distinctly known , but all is shewn confused and enlarged through the mist of panegyric . ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in the year one ...
... character , not the life , of Cowley ; for he writes with so little detail , that scarcely any thing is distinctly known , but all is shewn confused and enlarged through the mist of panegyric . ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in the year one ...
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... characters by which his heart was divided , he in reality was in love but once , and then never had resolution ... character from crimes which he was never within the possibility of committing , differs only by the infrequency of ...
... characters by which his heart was divided , he in reality was in love but once , and then never had resolution ... character from crimes which he was never within the possibility of committing , differs only by the infrequency of ...
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... character of physician , still , according to Sprat , with intention " to dissemble the main design of his coming over ; " and , as Mr. Wood relates , " complying with the men then in power ( which was much taken notice of by the royal ...
... character of physician , still , according to Sprat , with intention " to dissemble the main design of his coming over ; " and , as Mr. Wood relates , " complying with the men then in power ( which was much taken notice of by the royal ...
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... characters either not yet introduced , or shewn but upon few occasions , the full extent and the nice discriminations cannot be ascertained . The fable is plainly implex , formed rather from the Odyssey than the Iliad : and many ...
... characters either not yet introduced , or shewn but upon few occasions , the full extent and the nice discriminations cannot be ascertained . The fable is plainly implex , formed rather from the Odyssey than the Iliad : and many ...
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... own . This wide position requires less limitation , when it is affirmed of Cowley , than perhaps of any other poet . He read much , and yet borrowed little . - His character of writing was indeed not his own : 40 COWLEY .
... own . This wide position requires less limitation , when it is affirmed of Cowley , than perhaps of any other poet . He read much , and yet borrowed little . - His character of writing was indeed not his own : 40 COWLEY .
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