Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-DrydenClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... says Sprat , ' to relate that he had this defect in his memory at that time , that his teachers never could bring it to retain the ordinary rules of grammar2 . ' This is an instance of the natural desire of man to propagate 5 a wonder 3 ...
... says Sprat , ' to relate that he had this defect in his memory at that time , that his teachers never could bring it to retain the ordinary rules of grammar2 . ' This is an instance of the natural desire of man to propagate 5 a wonder 3 ...
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... says of Pyramus and Thisbe : - ' I hope a pardon may easily be gotten for the errors of ten years old . My ... say , The Birch which crown'd her then is growne a Bay . ' 6 Jonson celebrated him in Under- woods , No. xcvi . Evelyn ...
... says of Pyramus and Thisbe : - ' I hope a pardon may easily be gotten for the errors of ten years old . My ... say , The Birch which crown'd her then is growne a Bay . ' 6 Jonson celebrated him in Under- woods , No. xcvi . Evelyn ...
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... says was neither written nor acted , but rough - drawn by him , and repeated by the scholars1 . That this comedy was printed during his absence from his country , he appears to have considered as injurious to his reputation ; though ...
... says was neither written nor acted , but rough - drawn by him , and repeated by the scholars1 . That this comedy was printed during his absence from his country , he appears to have considered as injurious to his reputation ; though ...
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... says : - ' If I were ever to fall in love again ( which is a great passion , and therefore I hope I have done with it ) it would be , I think , with prettiness rather than with majestical beauty . ' Eng . Poets , ix . 80 . According to ...
... says : - ' If I were ever to fall in love again ( which is a great passion , and therefore I hope I have done with it ) it would be , I think , with prettiness rather than with majestical beauty . ' Eng . Poets , ix . 80 . According to ...
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... says Sprat , ' passed of 21 course into other hands ' ; and Cowley , being no longer useful at Paris , was in 1656 sent back into England that , ' under pretence of privacy and retirement , he might take occasion of giving notice of the ...
... says Sprat , ' passed of 21 course into other hands ' ; and Cowley , being no longer useful at Paris , was in 1656 sent back into England that , ' under pretence of privacy and retirement , he might take occasion of giving notice of the ...
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