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... feems fcarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , fince a volume of his poems was not only written but printed in his thirteenth year * ; containing , with other poetical com- pofitions , " The ...
... feems fcarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , fince a volume of his poems was not only written but printed in his thirteenth year * ; containing , with other poetical com- pofitions , " The ...
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... feems to be now univerfally neglected . At the 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 ...
... feems to be now univerfally neglected . At the 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 ...
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... 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 a fhadow . " It is furely not difficult , in the ...
... 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 a fhadow . " It is furely not difficult , in the ...
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... feems not unwor- thy of fome notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agitation : 10 " The Scotch treaty , " fays he , " is the << only thing now in which we are vitally con- " cerned ; I am one of the laft hopers , and " yet ...
... feems not unwor- thy of fome notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agitation : 10 " The Scotch treaty , " fays he , " is the << only thing now in which we are vitally con- " cerned ; I am one of the laft hopers , and " yet ...
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... feems to have inferted . fomething , fuppreffed in fubfequent editions , which was interpreted to denote fome relaxa- ation of his loyalty . In this preface he de- clares , that " his defire had been for fome days paft , and did ftill ...
... feems to have inferted . fomething , fuppreffed in fubfequent editions , which was interpreted to denote fome relaxa- ation of his loyalty . In this preface he de- clares , that " his defire had been for fome days paft , and did ftill ...
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