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Page 18
... beauties of Flowers in various measures ; and in the fifth and fixth , the uses of trees in heroick numbers . At the fame time were produced , from the fame univerfity , the two great Poets , Cowley and Milton , of diffimilar genius ...
... beauties of Flowers in various measures ; and in the fifth and fixth , the uses of trees in heroick numbers . At the fame time were produced , from the fame univerfity , the two great Poets , Cowley and Milton , of diffimilar genius ...
Page 61
... which apparently excel all that have gone before them , and in which there are beauties which common authors * Dodfley's Collection of Poems , vol . V. R. may may justly think not only above their attain- ment , COWL E Y. 61.
... which apparently excel all that have gone before them , and in which there are beauties which common authors * Dodfley's Collection of Poems , vol . V. R. may may justly think not only above their attain- ment , COWL E Y. 61.
Page 64
... beauties and faults , and nearly in the fame proportion . They are written with exuberance of wit , and with copiousness of learning ; and it is truly afferted by Sprat , that the plenitude of the writer's knowledge flows in upon his ...
... beauties and faults , and nearly in the fame proportion . They are written with exuberance of wit , and with copiousness of learning ; and it is truly afferted by Sprat , that the plenitude of the writer's knowledge flows in upon his ...
Page 73
... beauties and faults of Cowley : Omnibus mundi Dominator horis Aptat urgendas per inane pennas , Pars adhuc nido latet , & futuros Crefcit in annos . Cowley , whatever was his subject , seems to have been carried , by a kind of deftiny ...
... beauties and faults of Cowley : Omnibus mundi Dominator horis Aptat urgendas per inane pennas , Pars adhuc nido latet , & futuros Crefcit in annos . Cowley , whatever was his subject , seems to have been carried , by a kind of deftiny ...
Page 85
... beauties ' deepest rèd ; An harmless flattering meteor fhone for hair , And fell adown his fhoulders with loofe care ; He cuts out a filk mantle from the skies , Where the most sprightly azure pleas'd the eyes ; This he with flarry ...
... beauties ' deepest rèd ; An harmless flattering meteor fhone for hair , And fell adown his fhoulders with loofe care ; He cuts out a filk mantle from the skies , Where the most sprightly azure pleas'd the eyes ; This he with flarry ...
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