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... numbers ; " and have 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 ...
... numbers ; " and have 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 ...
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... numbers in th ' unequal field , His men difcourag'd , and himself expell'd : Let him for fuccour fue from place to place , Torn from his fubjects and his fon's embrace . Firft let him fee his friends in battle flain , And their untimely ...
... numbers in th ' unequal field , His men difcourag'd , and himself expell'd : Let him for fuccour fue from place to place , Torn from his fubjects and his fon's embrace . Firft let him fee his friends in battle flain , And their untimely ...
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... numbers . At the fame time were produced , from the fame univerfity , the two great Poets , Cowley and Milton , of diffimilar genius , of oppofite principles ; but concurring in the cultivation of Latin Poetry , in which the English ...
... numbers . At the fame time were produced , from the fame univerfity , the two great Poets , Cowley and Milton , of diffimilar genius , of oppofite principles ; but concurring in the cultivation of Latin Poetry , in which the English ...
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... Thomas May , an eminent poet and histo- rian , who flourished in the reigns of James and Charles I , and of whom a life is given in the Biographia Bri- tannica . H. C 2 time time of fuch general hope , that great numbers were COWL E Y. 19.
... Thomas May , an eminent poet and histo- rian , who flourished in the reigns of James and Charles I , and of whom a life is given in the Biographia Bri- tannica . H. C 2 time time of fuch general hope , that great numbers were COWL E Y. 19.
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Samuel Johnson. time of fuch general hope , that great numbers were inevitably disappointed ; and Cowley found his reward very tediously delayed . He had been promised , by both Charles the First and Second , the Mastership of the Savoy ...
Samuel Johnson. time of fuch general hope , that great numbers were inevitably disappointed ; and Cowley found his reward very tediously delayed . He had been promised , by both Charles the First and Second , the Mastership of the Savoy ...
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