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... friend- fhip , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life of Cow- ley ; for he writes with fo little detail , that fcarcely any thing is diftinctly known ...
... friend- fhip , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life of Cow- ley ; for he writes with fo little detail , that fcarcely any thing is diftinctly known ...
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... friends in battle flain , And their untimely fate lament in vain : And when , at length , the cruel war fhall ceafe , On hard conditions may he buy his peace ; Some years afterwards , 99 business , ” fays Sprat 4 Nor 12 COWLEY .
... friends in battle flain , And their untimely fate lament in vain : And when , at length , the cruel war fhall ceafe , On hard conditions may he buy his peace ; Some years afterwards , 99 business , ” fays Sprat 4 Nor 12 COWLEY .
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... his mind ( whereby he gained " the ill - will of fome of his friends ) , he " went into France again , having made a copy of verfes on Oliver's death . " 66 This is no favourable reprefentation , yet even in this This COWLE Y. 15.
... his mind ( whereby he gained " the ill - will of fome of his friends ) , he " went into France again , having made a copy of verfes on Oliver's death . " 66 This is no favourable reprefentation , yet even in this This COWLE Y. 15.
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... friend , but by his friend's per- miffion . Of the verses on Oliver's death , in which Wood's narrative feems to ... friends . among the abettors of ufurpation . A doctor of phyfick however he was made at Oxford , in December , 1657 ...
... friend , but by his friend's per- miffion . Of the verses on Oliver's death , in which Wood's narrative feems to ... friends . among the abettors of ufurpation . A doctor of phyfick however he was made at Oxford , in December , 1657 ...
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... friend begin . In a fimile descriptive of the Morning : As glimmering ftars juft at th ' approach of day , Cashier'd by troops , at laft drop all away . The The drefs of Gabriel deferves attention : He took for 84 COWL E Y.
... friend begin . In a fimile descriptive of the Morning : As glimmering ftars juft at th ' approach of day , Cashier'd by troops , at laft drop all away . The The drefs of Gabriel deferves attention : He took for 84 COWL E Y.
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