Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1926 - English poetry |
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... expected from so great a man . ' What firmness they expected , or what weakness Cowley discovered , cannot be known . He that misses his end will never be as much pleased as he that attains it , even when he can impute no part of his ...
... expected from so great a man . ' What firmness they expected , or what weakness Cowley discovered , cannot be known . He that misses his end will never be as much pleased as he that attains it , even when he can impute no part of his ...
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... expected , while others for their money carried away most places , he retired discontented into Surrey . ' ' He was now , ' says the courtly Sprat , weary of the vexations and formalities of an active condition . He had been perplexed ...
... expected , while others for their money carried away most places , he retired discontented into Surrey . ' ' He was now , ' says the courtly Sprat , weary of the vexations and formalities of an active condition . He had been perplexed ...
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... expected from it , may be doubted . The Italian academy seems to have obtained its end . The language was refined , and so fixed that it has changed but little . The French academy thought that they refined their language , and ...
... expected from it , may be doubted . The Italian academy seems to have obtained its end . The language was refined , and so fixed that it has changed but little . The French academy thought that they refined their language , and ...
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