The lives of the English poetsRivington, 1858 - 414 pages |
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... 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 con- dition Dr. Sprat conceals under the general appellation of a ...
... 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 con- dition Dr. Sprat conceals under the general appellation of a ...
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... shewn him , he received the news of his ill - success , not with so much firmness as might have been expected from so great a man . " What firmness they expected , or what weakness Cowley discovered , cannot be known . He that misses ...
... shewn him , he received the news of his ill - success , not with so much firmness as might have been expected from so great a man . " What firmness they expected , or what weakness Cowley discovered , cannot be known . He that misses ...
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Samuel Johnson. So differently are things seen ! and so differently are they shewn ! but actions are visible , though motives are secret . Cowley certainly retired : first to Barn - elms , and afterwards to Chertsey , in Surry . He seems ...
Samuel Johnson. So differently are things seen ! and so differently are they shewn ! but actions are visible , though motives are secret . Cowley certainly retired : first to Barn - elms , and afterwards to Chertsey , in Surry . He seems ...
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... shew us that he knows what an egg contains . Thou into the close nests of Time dost peep , And there with piercing eye ... shewn ; For , though I have too much cause to doubt it , I fain would try for once , if life can live without it ...
... shew us that he knows what an egg contains . Thou into the close nests of Time dost peep , And there with piercing eye ... shewn ; For , though I have too much cause to doubt it , I fain would try for once , if life can live without it ...
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... shewn by the third part . The duration of an unfinished action cannot be known . Of characters either not yet introduced , or shewn but upon few occasions , the full extent and the nice discriminations cannot be ascertained . The fable ...
... shewn by the third part . The duration of an unfinished action cannot be known . Of characters either not yet introduced , or shewn but upon few occasions , the full extent and the nice discriminations cannot be ascertained . The fable ...
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