The Lives of the English Poets; and a criticism on their works, Volume 11790 |
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... thing is diftinctly known , but all is fhewn confused and enlarged through the mist of panegyrick . ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in the year one thousand fix hundred and eigh- teen . His father was a grocer , whose con- VOL . I. B dition ...
... thing is diftinctly known , but all is fhewn confused and enlarged through the mist of panegyrick . ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in the year one thousand fix hundred and eigh- teen . His father was a grocer , whose con- VOL . I. B dition ...
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... thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying . a commodious incident , though the book to which he prefixed his narrative contained its confutation . A memory admitting fome things , and rejecting others , an ...
... thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying . a commodious incident , though the book to which he prefixed his narrative contained its confutation . A memory admitting fome things , and rejecting others , an ...
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... things , as to more tardy minds feems fcarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , fince a volume of his poems was not only written but printed in his thirteenth year * ; containing , with other ...
... things , as to more tardy minds feems fcarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , fince a volume of his poems was not only written but printed in his thirteenth year * ; containing , with other ...
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... things of real im- portance with real men and real women , and at that time did not much employ his thoughts upon phantoms of gallantry . Some of his letters to Mr. Bennet , afterwards Earl of Ar- Jington , from April to December in ...
... things of real im- portance with real men and real women , and at that time did not much employ his thoughts upon phantoms of gallantry . Some of his letters to Mr. Bennet , afterwards Earl of Ar- Jington , from April to December in ...
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... thing now in which we are vitally con- " cerned ; I am one of the laft hopers , and " yet cannot now abstain from believing , that " an agreement will be made : all people upon " the place incline to that of union . The " Scotch will ...
... thing now in which we are vitally con- " cerned ; I am one of the laft hopers , and " yet cannot now abstain from believing , that " an agreement will be made : all people upon " the place incline to that of union . The " Scotch will ...
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