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... verse , but mere profe . It was printed , with a dedication in verse to Dr. Comber , mafter of the college ; but hav- ing neither the facility of a popular nor the accuracy of a learned work , it feems to be now univerfally neglected ...
... verse , but mere profe . It was printed , with a dedication in verse to Dr. Comber , mafter of the college ; but hav- ing neither the facility of a popular nor the accuracy of a learned work , it feems to be now univerfally neglected ...
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... verses on Oliver's death , in which Wood's narrative feems to imply fomething encomiaftick , there has been no appearance . There is a difcourfe concerning his govern- ment , indeed , with verfes intermixed , but fuch as certainly ...
... verses on Oliver's death , in which Wood's narrative feems to imply fomething encomiaftick , there has been no appearance . There is a difcourfe concerning his govern- ment , indeed , with verfes intermixed , but fuch as certainly ...
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... verses : In every thing there naturally grows A Balfamum to keep it fresh and new , If ' twere not injur'd by extrinfique blows ; Your youth and beauty are this balm in you . But you , of learning and religion , And virtue and fuch ...
... verses : In every thing there naturally grows A Balfamum to keep it fresh and new , If ' twere not injur'd by extrinfique blows ; Your youth and beauty are this balm in you . But you , of learning and religion , And virtue and fuch ...
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... be there . Several lights will not be feen , If there be nothing else between . Men doubt , because they stand so thick i'th sky , If those be stars which paint the galaxy . 2 In 1 In his verses to Lord Falkland , whom every COWLEY . 57.
... be there . Several lights will not be feen , If there be nothing else between . Men doubt , because they stand so thick i'th sky , If those be stars which paint the galaxy . 2 In 1 In his verses to Lord Falkland , whom every COWLEY . 57.
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Samuel Johnson. 1 In his verses to Lord Falkland , whom every man of his time was proud to praise , there are , as there must be in all Cowley's compofitions , fome striking thoughts , but they are not well wrought . His elegy on Sir ...
Samuel Johnson. 1 In his verses to Lord Falkland , whom every man of his time was proud to praise , there are , as there must be in all Cowley's compofitions , fome striking thoughts , but they are not well wrought . His elegy on Sir ...
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