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... produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has 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 ...
... produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has 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 ...
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... . Such are the accidents which , fometimes remembered , and perhaps fometimes forgotten , produce that particular defignation of mind , and propenfity for fome certain 1 certain fcience or employment , which is commonly called COWLEY .
... . Such are the accidents which , fometimes remembered , and perhaps fometimes forgotten , produce that particular defignation of mind , and propenfity for fome certain 1 certain fcience or employment , which is commonly called COWLEY .
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... produced a comedy called " Love's Riddle , " though it was not published till he had been fome time at Cambridge . This comedy is of the pa- ftoral kind , which requires no acquaintance with the living world , and therefore the time at ...
... produced a comedy called " Love's Riddle , " though it was not published till he had been fome time at Cambridge . This comedy is of the pa- ftoral kind , which requires no acquaintance with the living world , and therefore the time at ...
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... produced actions of heroifm , and effufions of wit ; but it feems as reasonable to appear the champion as 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 ...
... produced actions of heroifm , and effufions of wit ; but it feems as reasonable to appear the champion as 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 ...
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... 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 , till their their works and May's ...
... 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 , till their their works and May's ...
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