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... 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 thousand six hundred and eighteen . His father was a grocer , whose
condition ...
... 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 thousand six hundred and eighteen . His father was a grocer , whose
condition ...
Page 5
... they shew him to have been above the affectation of unseasonable elegance ,
and to have known that the business of a statesman can be little forwarded by
flowers of rhetoric . One passage , however , seems not unworthy of some notice .
... they shew him to have been above the affectation of unseasonable elegance ,
and to have known that the business of a statesman can be little forwarded by
flowers of rhetoric . One passage , however , seems not unworthy of some notice .
Page 8
What firmness they expected , or what weakness Cowley discovered , cannot be
known . He that misses his end will never be as much pleased as he that attains it
, even when he can impute no part of his failure to himself ; and , when the end ...
What firmness they expected , or what weakness Cowley discovered , cannot be
known . He that misses his end will never be as much pleased as he that attains it
, even when he can impute no part of his failure to himself ; and , when the end ...
Page 11
What he did not tell , cannot however now be known ; I must therefore
recommend the perusal of his work , to which my narration can be considered
only as a slender supplement . Cowley , like other poets who have written with
narrow views ...
What he did not tell , cannot however now be known ; I must therefore
recommend the perusal of his work , to which my narration can be considered
only as a slender supplement . Cowley , like other poets who have written with
narrow views ...
Page 17
And where these are temperate known , The soil ' s all barren sand , or rocky
stone . Cowley . A Lover , burnt up by his affection , is compared to Egypt : The
fate of Egypt I sustain , And never feel the dew of rain From clouds which in the
head ...
And where these are temperate known , The soil ' s all barren sand , or rocky
stone . Cowley . A Lover , burnt up by his affection , is compared to Egypt : The
fate of Egypt I sustain , And never feel the dew of rain From clouds which in the
head ...
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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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