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... published before 1633 , when Cowley was fifteen years old . Dr. Johnfon , as well as former Biographers , feems to have been mifled by the portrait of Cowley being by miftake marked with the age of thirteen years . R. " and and Thisbe ...
... published before 1633 , when Cowley was fifteen years old . Dr. Johnfon , as well as former Biographers , feems to have been mifled by the portrait of Cowley being by miftake marked with the age of thirteen years . R. " and and Thisbe ...
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... 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 which it was compofed adds little to the wonders of Cowley's ...
... 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 which it was compofed adds little to the wonders of Cowley's ...
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... published a fatire , called " The " Puritan and Papift , " which was only inferted in the laft collection of his works * ; and fo diftinguished himself by the warmth of his loyalty , and the elegance of his converfation , that he gained ...
... published a fatire , called " The " Puritan and Papift , " which was only inferted in the laft collection of his works * ; and fo diftinguished himself by the warmth of his loyalty , and the elegance of his converfation , that he gained ...
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... published ; for he imagined , as he declared in his preface to a fubfequent edition , that poets are scarcely thought freemen of their 66 66 company without paying fome duties , or " obliging themselves to be true to Love . " This ...
... published ; for he imagined , as he declared in his preface to a fubfequent edition , that poets are scarcely thought freemen of their 66 66 company without paying fome duties , or " obliging themselves to be true to Love . " This ...
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... published by Brown . These letters , being written like thofe of other men whofe minds are more on things than words , contribute no otherwife to his reputation than as they fhew him to have been above the affectation of unfeasonable ...
... published by Brown . These letters , being written like thofe of other men whofe minds are more on things than words , contribute no otherwife to his reputation than as they fhew him to have been above the affectation of unfeasonable ...
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