The Lives of the English Poets; and a criticism on their works, Volume 11790 |
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... poetry . But the basis of all excellence is truth : he that profeffes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a real lover , and Laura doubtless deferved his tenderness . Of Cowley , we are told by Barnes * , who had means enough of ...
... poetry . But the basis of all excellence is truth : he that profeffes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a real lover , and Laura doubtless deferved his tenderness . Of Cowley , we are told by Barnes * , who had means enough of ...
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... poet of an " airy nothing , " and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley might have 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 ...
... poet of an " airy nothing , " and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley might have 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 ...
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... Poetry . He composed in Latin feveral books on Plants , of which the first and second difplay the qualities of Herbs ... Poetry , in which the English , till their their works and May's poem appeared * , feem- ed 18 COWLEY .
... Poetry . He composed in Latin feveral books on Plants , of which the first and second difplay the qualities of Herbs ... Poetry , in which the English , till their their works and May's poem appeared * , feem- ed 18 COWLEY .
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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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