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... Cowley . Milton is generally content to express the thoughts of the ancients in their language ; Cowley , without much loss of purity or elegance , accommodates the diction of Rome to his own conceptions . At the Restoration , after all ...
... Cowley . Milton is generally content to express the thoughts of the ancients in their language ; Cowley , without much loss of purity or elegance , accommodates the diction of Rome to his own conceptions . At the Restoration , after all ...
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... COWLEY A lover , burnt up by his affection , is compared to Egypt : The fate of Egypt I sustain , And never feel the dew of rain , From clouds which in the head appear ; But all my too much moisture owe To overflowings of the heart ...
... COWLEY A lover , burnt up by his affection , is compared to Egypt : The fate of Egypt I sustain , And never feel the dew of rain , From clouds which in the head appear ; But all my too much moisture owe To overflowings of the heart ...
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... Cowley certainly errs , by introducing pedantry far more frequently than Tasso . I know not , indeed , why they should be compared ; for the resem- blance of Cowley's work to Tasso's is only that they ... Cowley's poetry it will be COWLEY 45.
... Cowley certainly errs , by introducing pedantry far more frequently than Tasso . I know not , indeed , why they should be compared ; for the resem- blance of Cowley's work to Tasso's is only that they ... Cowley's poetry it will be COWLEY 45.
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