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... since it was first introduced by Suckling , perhaps every generation of poets
has been teased . “ Savoy - missing Cowley came into the court , Making
apologies for his bad play ; Every one gave him so good a report , That Apollo
gave heed ...
... since it was first introduced by Suckling , perhaps every generation of poets
has been teased . “ Savoy - missing Cowley came into the court , Making
apologies for his bad play ; Every one gave him so good a report , That Apollo
gave heed ...
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... they drew their illustrations were true ; it was enough that they were popular .
Bacon remarks , that some falsehoods are continued by tradition , because they
supply commodious allusions . It gave a piteous groan , and so it broke COWLEY
.
... they drew their illustrations were true ; it was enough that they were popular .
Bacon remarks , that some falsehoods are continued by tradition , because they
supply commodious allusions . It gave a piteous groan , and so it broke COWLEY
.
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It gave a piteous groan , and so it broke ; In vain it something would have spoke ;
The love within too strong for't was , Like poison put into a Venice - glass .
COWLEY . In forming descriptions , they looked out , not for images , but for
conceits .
It gave a piteous groan , and so it broke ; In vain it something would have spoke ;
The love within too strong for't was , Like poison put into a Venice - glass .
COWLEY . In forming descriptions , they looked out , not for images , but for
conceits .
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... words are introduced , is practised , not by those who talk to be understood ,
but by those who write to be admired . The Anacreontics therefore of Cowley give
now all the age to pleasure which they ever gave . If he was formed 28 COWLEY
.
... words are introduced , is practised , not by those who talk to be understood ,
but by those who write to be admired . The Anacreontics therefore of Cowley give
now all the age to pleasure which they ever gave . If he was formed 28 COWLEY
.
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pleasure which they ever gave . If he was formed by nature for one kind of writing
more than for another , his power seems to have been greatest in the familiar and
the festive . The next class of his poems is called The Mistress , of which it is ...
pleasure which they ever gave . If he was formed by nature for one kind of writing
more than for another , his power seems to have been greatest in the familiar and
the festive . The next class of his poems is called The Mistress , of which it is ...
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| Title | The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 Collection of British and American Authors Collection of British authors Volumes 418-419 of Collection of British authors, Tauchnitz edition Volume 418 of Tauchnitz edition The Lives of the English Poets, Samuel Johnson |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1858 |
| Original from | Barcelona Athenaeum Library |
| Digitized | 22 Dec 2008 |
| Length | 414 pages |
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