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... 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 tragical Hiftory of Pyramus * This Volume ...
... 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 tragical Hiftory of Pyramus * This Volume ...
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... learned work , it 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 ...
... learned work , it 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 ...
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... learned from his master Pindar to call the dream of a fhadow . " It is furely not difficult , in the folitude of a college , or in the buftle of the world , to find useful ftudies and ferious employment . No man needs to be fo burthened ...
... learned from his master Pindar to call the dream of a fhadow . " It is furely not difficult , in the folitude of a college , or in the buftle of the world , to find useful ftudies and ferious employment . No man needs to be fo burthened ...
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... learned is to be retrieved , or fomething new is to be examined . If their greatnefs feldom elevates , their acutenefs often surprises ; if the imagination is not always gratified , at leaft the powers of reflexion and comparison are ...
... learned is to be retrieved , or fomething new is to be examined . If their greatnefs feldom elevates , their acutenefs often surprises ; if the imagination is not always gratified , at leaft the powers of reflexion and comparison are ...
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... learned notions give , And th ' apples were demonftrative : So clear their colour and divine , The very fhade they cast did other lights outshine . On Anacreon continuing a lover in his old age : Love was with thy life entwin'd , Close ...
... learned notions give , And th ' apples were demonftrative : So clear their colour and divine , The very fhade they cast did other lights outshine . On Anacreon continuing a lover in his old age : Love was with thy life entwin'd , Close ...
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