The lives of the English poetsRivington, 1858 - 414 pages |
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... produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life , of Cowley ; for he ... produce that Johnson's Lives . I. 1 particular designation of mind , and propensity for some certain COWLEY CONTENTS OF ...
... produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life , of Cowley ; for he ... produce that Johnson's Lives . I. 1 particular designation of mind , and propensity for some certain COWLEY CONTENTS OF ...
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... produced a comedy called " Love's Riddle , " though it was not published till he had been some time at Cambridge . This comedy its of the pastoral kind , which requires no acquaintance with the living world , and therefore the time at ...
... produced a comedy called " Love's Riddle , " though it was not published till he had been some time at Cambridge . This comedy its of the pastoral kind , which requires no acquaintance with the living world , and therefore the time at ...
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... produced actions of heroism , and effusions of wit ; but it seems as reasonable to appear the champion as the poet of an " airy nothing , " and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley might have learned from his master Pindar to call ...
... produced actions of heroism , and effusions of wit ; but it seems as reasonable to appear the champion as the poet of an " airy nothing , " and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley might have learned from his master Pindar to call ...
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... , in heroic numbers . At the same time were produced , from the same university , the two great poets , Cowley and Milton , of dissimilar genius , of opposite principles ; but concurring in the cultivation of COWLEY . 7.
... , in heroic numbers . At the same time were produced , from the same university , the two great poets , Cowley and Milton , of dissimilar genius , of opposite principles ; but concurring in the cultivation of COWLEY . 7.
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... produced it under the title of " The Cutter of Coleman - street . " It was treated on the stage with great severity , and was afterward censured as a satire on the King's party . Mr. Dryden , who went with Mr. Sprat to the first ex ...
... produced it under the title of " The Cutter of Coleman - street . " It was treated on the stage with great severity , and was afterward censured as a satire on the King's party . Mr. Dryden , who went with Mr. Sprat to the first ex ...
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