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Page 9
... actions of heroifm , and effufions of wit ; but it feems 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 the dream of ...
... actions of heroifm , and effufions of wit ; but it feems 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 the dream of ...
Page 23
... " fortune . " So differently are things feen ! and fo dif- ferently are they fhewn ! but actions are vifi- ble , though motives are fecret . Cowley cer- C 4 tainly tainly retired ; first to Barn - elms , and COWL E Y. 23.
... " fortune . " So differently are things feen ! and fo dif- ferently are they fhewn ! but actions are vifi- ble , though motives are fecret . Cowley cer- C 4 tainly tainly retired ; first to Barn - elms , and COWL E Y. 23.
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... leifure ; as Epicurean deities , making remarks on the actions of men , and the viciffitudes of life , without intereft and without emotion . Their courtship was void of of fondness , and their lamentation of for- row . 30 COWLEY .
... leifure ; as Epicurean deities , making remarks on the actions of men , and the viciffitudes of life , without intereft and without emotion . Their courtship was void of of fondness , and their lamentation of for- row . 30 COWLEY .
Page 58
... action can display . He knew how to diftin- guifh , and how to commend the qualities of his companion ; but when he wishes to make us weep , he forgets to weep himself , and di- verts his forrow by imagining how his crown of bays , if ...
... action can display . He knew how to diftin- guifh , and how to commend the qualities of his companion ; but when he wishes to make us weep , he forgets to weep himself , and di- verts his forrow by imagining how his crown of bays , if ...
Page 81
... action , that the reader of the Sacred Volume habitually confiders it as the peculiar mode of existence of a diftinct fpecies of mankind , that lived and acted with manners uncommunicable ; fo that it is difficult even for imagination ...
... action , that the reader of the Sacred Volume habitually confiders it as the peculiar mode of existence of a diftinct fpecies of mankind , that lived and acted with manners uncommunicable ; fo that it is difficult even for imagination ...
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