The lives of the English poetsRivington, 1858 - 414 pages |
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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 so little detail , that scarcely any thing is distinctly 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 so little detail , that scarcely any thing is distinctly known ...
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... friends ) he went into France again , having made a copy of verses on Oliver's death . " This is no favourable representation , yet even in this not much wrong can be discovered . How far he complied with the men in power , is to be ...
... friends ) he went into France again , having made a copy of verses on Oliver's death . " This is no favourable representation , yet even in this not much wrong can be discovered . How far he complied with the men in power , is to be ...
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... friend , but by his friend's permission . Of the verses on Oliver's death , in which Wood's narrative seems to ... friends among the abettors of usurpation . A doctor of physic however he was made at Oxford in December , 1657 ; and ...
... friend , but by his friend's permission . Of the verses on Oliver's death , in which Wood's narrative seems to ... friends among the abettors of usurpation . A doctor of physic however he was made at Oxford in December , 1657 ; and ...
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... friend begin . In a simile descriptive of the morning : As glimmering stars just at th ' approach of day , Cashier'd by troops , at last all drop away . The dress of Gabriel deserves attention : He took for skin a cloud most soft and ...
... friend begin . In a simile descriptive of the morning : As glimmering stars just at th ' approach of day , Cashier'd by troops , at last all drop away . The dress of Gabriel deserves attention : He took for skin a cloud most soft and ...
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... friends . The man who has his God , no aid can lack ; And we who bid him go , will bring him back . Yet amidst his negligence he sometimes attempted an improved and scientific versification ; of which it will be best to give his own ...
... friends . The man who has his God , no aid can lack ; And we who bid him go , will bring him back . Yet amidst his negligence he sometimes attempted an improved and scientific versification ; of which it will be best to give his own ...
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