Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-DrydenClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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Samuel Johnson George Birkbeck Norman Hill. THE COWLEY I HE Life of Cowley ... Cowley ; for he writes with so little detail that scarcely any thing is ... Hurd's Select Works of Cowley , i . I. Addison , in an early poem , ab ...
Samuel Johnson George Birkbeck Norman Hill. THE COWLEY I HE Life of Cowley ... Cowley ; for he writes with so little detail that scarcely any thing is ... Hurd's Select Works of Cowley , i . I. Addison , in an early poem , ab ...
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... Hurd's Cowley , i . 45 . ९ * ' I believe I can tell the particular little chance that filled my head first with such chimes of verse as have never since left ringing there ; for I remember , when I began to read and to take some ...
... Hurd's Cowley , i . 45 . ९ * ' I believe I can tell the particular little chance that filled my head first with such chimes of verse as have never since left ringing there ; for I remember , when I began to read and to take some ...
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... Hurd's Cowley , i . 5. Cowley , men- tioning an ode , continues : - ' which I made when I was but thirteen years old and which was then printed with many other verses . ' Eng . Poets , ix . 120. In 1656 he writes that ' the poems he ...
... Hurd's Cowley , i . 5. Cowley , men- tioning an ode , continues : - ' which I made when I was but thirteen years old and which was then printed with many other verses . ' Eng . Poets , ix . 120. In 1656 he writes that ' the poems he ...
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... Cowley says of Pyramus and Thisbe : - ' I hope a pardon may easily be gotten for the errors of ten years old . My Constantia and Philetus confesseth me two years older when I writ it . ' * Post , MILTON , 181 ; POPE , 313 . 3 Hurd's Cowley ...
... Cowley says of Pyramus and Thisbe : - ' I hope a pardon may easily be gotten for the errors of ten years old . My Constantia and Philetus confesseth me two years older when I writ it . ' * Post , MILTON , 181 ; POPE , 313 . 3 Hurd's Cowley ...
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... Hurd's Cowley , i . 65. In the Pro- logue he says : - ' Accept our hasty zeal ; a thing that's play'd Ere ' tis a play , and acted ere ' tis made . ' Eng . Poets , vii . 128 . In March ... Hurd's Cowley , i . 10 ; post , DEN- COWLEY 5.
... Hurd's Cowley , i . 65. In the Pro- logue he says : - ' Accept our hasty zeal ; a thing that's play'd Ere ' tis a play , and acted ere ' tis made . ' Eng . Poets , vii . 128 . In March ... Hurd's Cowley , i . 10 ; post , DEN- COWLEY 5.
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