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... given the character , not the life of Cow- ley ; for he writes with fo little detail , that fcarcely any thing is diftinctly known , but all is fhewn confused and enlarged through the mist of panegyrick . ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in the ...
... given the character , not the life of Cow- ley ; for he writes with fo little detail , that fcarcely any thing is diftinctly known , but all is fhewn confused and enlarged through the mist of panegyrick . ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in the ...
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... given fuch early proofs , not only of powers of language , but of comprehenfion of things , as to more tardy minds feems fcarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , fince a volume of his poems was ...
... given fuch early proofs , not only of powers of language , but of comprehenfion of things , as to more tardy minds feems fcarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , fince a volume of his poems was ...
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... given fome credit to the anfwer of his oracle , Some * Confulting the Virgilian Lots , Sortes Virgiliana , is a method of Divination by the opening of Virgil , and applying to the circumftances of the perufer the first paffage in either ...
... given fome credit to the anfwer of his oracle , Some * Confulting the Virgilian Lots , Sortes Virgiliana , is a method of Divination by the opening of Virgil , and applying to the circumftances of the perufer the first paffage in either ...
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... given by Dr. Scarborough . with a This year he published his poems , preface , in which he feems to have inferted . fomething , fuppreffed in fubfequent editions , which was interpreted to denote fome relaxa- ation of his loyalty . In ...
... given by Dr. Scarborough . with a This year he published his poems , preface , in which he feems to have inferted . fomething , fuppreffed in fubfequent editions , which was interpreted to denote fome relaxa- ation of his loyalty . In ...
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Samuel Johnson. commencement of the Royal Society , of which an account has been given by Dr. Birch , he appears busy among the experimental phi- lofophers with the title of Dr. Cowley . There is no reason for fuppofing that he ever ...
Samuel Johnson. commencement of the Royal Society , of which an account has been given by Dr. Birch , he appears busy among the experimental phi- lofophers with the title of Dr. Cowley . There is no reason for fuppofing that he ever ...
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