Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-DrydenClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... known as the founders of the Hazelwood ' system of education , which with its reliance on love as the principle to which all trainers of the young should chiefly trust , its elaborate constitution of government by the boys , and its ...
... known as the founders of the Hazelwood ' system of education , which with its reliance on love as the principle to which all trainers of the young should chiefly trust , its elaborate constitution of government by the boys , and its ...
Page xvi
... known to Johnson . The next year he edited Boswell's Journal of a Tour to Corsica . Twice was he drawn away from the task which he had set before himself , a new edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson . On the death of his uncle , Sir ...
... known to Johnson . The next year he edited Boswell's Journal of a Tour to Corsica . Twice was he drawn away from the task which he had set before himself , a new edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson . On the death of his uncle , Sir ...
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... known , but all is shewn confused and enlarged through the mist of panegyrick 3 . ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in the year one thousand 2 six hundred and eighteen . His father was a grocer , whose condition Dr. Sprat conceals under the ...
... known , but all is shewn confused and enlarged through the mist of panegyrick 3 . ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in the year one thousand 2 six hundred and eighteen . His father was a grocer , whose condition Dr. Sprat conceals under the ...
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... known that the business of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetorick . 18 One passage , however , seems not unworthy of some notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agitation : 19 20 ' The Scotch treaty , ' says ...
... known that the business of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetorick . 18 One passage , however , seems not unworthy of some notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agitation : 19 20 ' The Scotch treaty , ' says ...
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... 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 failure to himself ; and when the end is to please the multitude , no man perhaps has a right , in things ...
... 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 failure to himself ; and when the end is to please the multitude , no man perhaps has a right , in things ...
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