Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-DrydenClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... thing is distinctly 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 ...
... thing is distinctly 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 ...
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... thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a com- modious incident , though the book to which he prefixed his narrative contained its confutation . A memory admitting some things and rejecting others , an ...
... thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a com- modious incident , though the book to which he prefixed his narrative contained its confutation . A memory admitting some things and rejecting others , an ...
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... thing that's play'd Ere ' tis a play , and acted ere ' tis made . ' Eng . Poets , vii . 128 . In March , 1641-2 , the Prince of Wales . [ Charles II ] , in his twelfth year , visited Cambridge . A letter- writer tells how he went to ...
... thing that's play'd Ere ' tis a play , and acted ere ' tis made . ' Eng . Poets , vii . 128 . In March , 1641-2 , the Prince of Wales . [ Charles II ] , in his twelfth year , visited Cambridge . A letter- writer tells how he went to ...
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... things and persons imagined by him . He may be in his own practice and disposition a philo- sopher , nay a Stoic , and yet ... thing than thou . ' Eng . Poets , viii . 147 . In a note on this in Pindarick Odes , 1674 , p . 39 , he writes ...
... things and persons imagined by him . He may be in his own practice and disposition a philo- sopher , nay a Stoic , and yet ... thing than thou . ' Eng . Poets , viii . 147 . In a note on this in Pindarick Odes , 1674 , p . 39 , he writes ...
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... thing now in which we are vitally concerned ; I am one of the last hopers , and yet cannot now abstain from believing , that an [ the ] agreement will be made : all people upon the place incline to that of union [ to that opinion ] ...
... thing now in which we are vitally concerned ; I am one of the last hopers , and yet cannot now abstain from believing , that an [ the ] agreement will be made : all people upon the place incline to that of union [ to that opinion ] ...
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