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... poets , Cowley , Mil- ton , and Pope , might be faid " to lifp in " 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 ...
... poets , Cowley , Mil- ton , and Pope , might be faid " to lifp in " 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 ...
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... poets are scarcely thought freemen of their 66 66 company without paying fome duties , or " obliging themselves to be true to Love . " This obligation to amorous ditties owes , I believe , its original to the fame of Petrarch , who , in ...
... poets are scarcely thought freemen of their 66 66 company without paying fome duties , or " obliging themselves to be true to Love . " This obligation to amorous ditties owes , I believe , its original to the fame of Petrarch , who , in ...
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... Poets , Cowley and Milton , of diffimilar genius , of oppofite principles ; but concurring in the cultivation of Latin Poetry , in which the English , till their their works and May's poem appeared * , feem- ed 18 COWLEY .
... Poets , Cowley and Milton , of diffimilar genius , of oppofite principles ; but concurring in the cultivation of Latin Poetry , in which the English , till their their works and May's poem appeared * , feem- ed 18 COWLEY .
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... Poem , we are here to understand a con- tinuation of Lucan's Pharfalia to the death of Julius Cæfar , by 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 ...
... Poem , we are here to understand a con- tinuation of Lucan's Pharfalia to the death of Julius Cæfar , by 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 ...
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