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In the window of his mother ' s apartment lay Spenser ' s Fairy Queen ; in which
he very early took delight to read , till , by feeling the charms of verse , he became
, as he relates , irrecoverably a poet . Such are the accidents which , sometimes ...
In the window of his mother ' s apartment lay Spenser ' s Fairy Queen ; in which
he very early took delight to read , till , by feeling the charms of verse , he became
, as he relates , irrecoverably a poet . Such are the accidents which , sometimes ...
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In the year 1647 , his “ Mistress ” was published ; for he imagined , as he
declared in his preface to a subsequent edition , that “ poets are scarcely thought
freemen of their company without paying some duties , or obliging themselves to
be true ...
In the year 1647 , his “ Mistress ” was published ; for he imagined , as he
declared in his preface to a subsequent edition , that “ poets are scarcely thought
freemen of their company without paying some duties , or obliging themselves to
be true ...
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Considering botany as necessary to a physician , he retired into Kent to gather
plants ; and as the predominance of a favourite study affects all subordinate
operations of the intellect , botany in the mind of Cowley turned into poetry .
Considering botany as necessary to a physician , he retired into Kent to gather
plants ; and as the predominance of a favourite study affects all subordinate
operations of the intellect , botany in the mind of Cowley turned into poetry .
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of opposite principles ; but concurring in the cultivation of Latin poetry , in which
the English , till their works and May's poem appeared , seemed unable to
contest the palm with any other of the lettered nations . If the Latin performances
of ...
of opposite principles ; but concurring in the cultivation of Latin poetry , in which
the English , till their works and May's poem appeared , seemed unable to
contest the palm with any other of the lettered nations . If the Latin performances
of ...
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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 ...
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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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