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... character , not the life , of Cowley ; for he writes with so little detail , 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 ...
... character , not the life , of Cowley ; for he writes with so little detail , 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 ...
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... characters by which his heart was divided , he in reality was in love but once , and then never had resolution to tell ... character from crimes which he was never within the possibility of committing , differs only by the infrequency of ...
... characters by which his heart was divided , he in reality was in love but once , and then never had resolution to tell ... character from crimes which he was never within the possibility of committing , differs only by the infrequency of ...
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... his own . This wide position requires less limitation , when it is affirmed of Cowley , than perhaps of any other poet . He read much , and yet borrowed little . His character of writing was indeed not his own : 40 COWLEY .
... his own . This wide position requires less limitation , when it is affirmed of Cowley , than perhaps of any other poet . He read much , and yet borrowed little . His character of writing was indeed not his own : 40 COWLEY .
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Samuel Johnson. His character of writing was indeed not his own : he unhappily adopted that which was predominant . He saw a certain way to present praise ; and , not sufficiently inquiring by what means the ancients have continued to ...
Samuel Johnson. His character of writing was indeed not his own : he unhappily adopted that which was predominant . He saw a certain way to present praise ; and , not sufficiently inquiring by what means the ancients have continued to ...
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... character of a good translator : That servile path thou nobly dost decline , Of tracing word by word , and line by line . Those are the labour'd birth of slavish brains , Not the effect of poetry , but pains ; Cheap vulgar arts , whose ...
... character of a good translator : That servile path thou nobly dost decline , Of tracing word by word , and line by line . Those are the labour'd birth of slavish brains , Not the effect of poetry , but pains ; Cheap vulgar arts , whose ...
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