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... praise , there are , as there must be in all Cowley's compositions , some striking thoughts , but they are not well wrought . His elegy on Sir Henry Wotton is vigorous and happy : the series of thoughts is easy and natural ; and the ...
... praise , there are , as there must be in all Cowley's compositions , some striking thoughts , but they are not well wrought . His elegy on Sir Henry Wotton is vigorous and happy : the series of thoughts is easy and natural ; and the ...
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... praise or censure . They have all the same beauties and faults , and nearly in the same proportion . They are ... praises are too far sought , and too hyper- bolical , either to express love or to excite it ; every stanza is crowded with ...
... praise or censure . They have all the same beauties and faults , and nearly in the same proportion . They are ... praises are too far sought , and too hyper- bolical , either to express love or to excite it ; every stanza is crowded with ...
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... praise ; of which it may be said with truth , that no man but Cowley could have written them . The Davideis now remains to be considered ; a poem which the author designed to have extended to twelve books , merely , as he makes no ...
... praise ; of which it may be said with truth , that no man but Cowley could have written them . The Davideis now remains to be considered ; a poem which the author designed to have extended to twelve books , merely , as he makes no ...
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... praise ; and , not sufficiently inquiring by what means the ancients have continued to delight through all the changes of human manners , he contented himself with a deciduous laurel , of which the verdure in its spring was bright and ...
... praise ; and , not sufficiently inquiring by what means the ancients have continued to delight through all the changes of human manners , he contented himself with a deciduous laurel , of which the verdure in its spring was bright and ...
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... praise of Fanshaw's version of Guarini contains a very sprightly and judicious 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 ...
... praise of Fanshaw's version of Guarini contains a very sprightly and judicious 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 ...
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