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... beginning of the civil war , as the Prince paffed through Cambridge in his way to York , he was entertained with a repre- fentation of the " Guardian , " a comedy , which Cowley fays was neither written nor acted , but rough - drawn by ...
... beginning of the civil war , as the Prince paffed through Cambridge in his way to York , he was entertained with a repre- fentation of the " Guardian , " a comedy , which Cowley fays was neither written nor acted , but rough - drawn by ...
Page 27
... beginning of the feventeenth century appeared a race of writers that be termed the metaphysical poets ; of whom , in a criticism on the works of Cowley , it is not improper to give some ac- may count . The The metaphyfical poets were ...
... beginning of the feventeenth century appeared a race of writers that be termed the metaphysical poets ; of whom , in a criticism on the works of Cowley , it is not improper to give some ac- may count . The The metaphyfical poets were ...
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... beginning is , I think , above the original in elegance , and the conclufion below it in ftrength . The connection is supplied with great perfpicuity , and the thoughts , which to a reader of less fkill feem thrown together by chance ...
... beginning is , I think , above the original in elegance , and the conclufion below it in ftrength . The connection is supplied with great perfpicuity , and the thoughts , which to a reader of less fkill feem thrown together by chance ...
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... as worthy of an epiftolary elegy . He was then fent to St. Paul's School , under the care of Mr. Gill ; and removed , in the beginning of his fixteenth year , to Chrifl's Chrift's College in Cambridge , where he entered a fizar MILTON .
... as worthy of an epiftolary elegy . He was then fent to St. Paul's School , under the care of Mr. Gill ; and removed , in the beginning of his fixteenth year , to Chrifl's Chrift's College in Cambridge , where he entered a fizar MILTON .
Page 162
... beginning , being probably moft in pain for his Latinity , he endeavours to defend his ufe of the word perfonae ; but , if I remember right , he miffes a better 4 a better authority than any that he has found , 162 MILTON .
... beginning , being probably moft in pain for his Latinity , he endeavours to defend his ufe of the word perfonae ; but , if I remember right , he miffes a better 4 a better authority than any that he has found , 162 MILTON .
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