Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-DrydenClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... considered as the best of the whole , on account of the dissertation which it contains on the Metaphysical Poets . Boswell's Johnson , iv . 38 . 2 Talking of biography , Dr. John- son said he did not think that the life of any literary ...
... considered as the best of the whole , on account of the dissertation which it contains on the Metaphysical Poets . Boswell's Johnson , iv . 38 . 2 Talking of biography , Dr. John- son said he did not think that the life of any literary ...
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... considered as injurious to his reputation ; though during the suppression of the theatres , it was sometimes privately acted with sufficient approbation 2 . In 1643 , being now master of arts , he was , by the prevalence 11 of the ...
... considered as injurious to his reputation ; though during the suppression of the theatres , it was sometimes privately acted with sufficient approbation 2 . In 1643 , being now master of arts , he was , by the prevalence 11 of the ...
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... considered as merely ludicrous , or at most as an ostentatious In his Complaint he makes the Muse reproach him with this part of his life ( Eng . Poets , vii . 249 ) : — ' Thou would'st , forsooth , be some- thing in a state , And ...
... considered as merely ludicrous , or at most as an ostentatious In his Complaint he makes the Muse reproach him with this part of his life ( Eng . Poets , vii . 249 ) : — ' Thou would'st , forsooth , be some- thing in a state , And ...
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... considered as a satire on the Royalists * . 40 That he might shorten this tedious suspense he published his pretensions and his discontent in an ode called The Com- plaint , in which he styles himself the melancholy Cowley 5 . * See ...
... considered as a satire on the Royalists * . 40 That he might shorten this tedious suspense he published his pretensions and his discontent in an ode called The Com- plaint , in which he styles himself the melancholy Cowley 5 . * See ...
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... considered only as a slender supplement . COWLEY , like other poets who have written with narrow views and , instead of tracing intellectual pleasure to its natural sources in the mind of man , paid their court to temporary pre- judices ...
... considered only as a slender supplement . COWLEY , like other poets who have written with narrow views and , instead of tracing intellectual pleasure to its natural sources in the mind of man , paid their court to temporary pre- judices ...
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