Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-DrydenClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... seem to have been ambitious , and Naufragium Foculare ' , a comedy written in Latin , but without due ... seems to be now universally neglected . the ode written at thirteen . The title of the poems was Poeticall Blossomes ...
... seem to have been ambitious , and Naufragium Foculare ' , a comedy written in Latin , but without due ... seems to be now universally neglected . the ode written at thirteen . The title of the poems was Poeticall Blossomes ...
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... seems not unworthy of some notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agitation : ' The Scotch treaty , ' says he , ' is the only thing now in which we are vitally concerned ; I am one of the last hopers , and yet cannot now abstain ...
... seems not unworthy of some notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agitation : ' The Scotch treaty , ' says he , ' is the only thing now in which we are vitally concerned ; I am one of the last hopers , and yet cannot now abstain ...
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... seems to imply something encomiastick , there has been no appearance . There is a discourse concerning his government , indeed , with verses intermixed , but such as certainly gained its author no friends among the abettors of ...
... seems to imply something encomiastick , there has been no appearance . There is a discourse concerning his government , indeed , with verses intermixed , but such as certainly gained its author no friends among the abettors of ...
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... seems to lie on the side of Cowley . Milton is generally content to express the thoughts of the ancients in their language ; Cowley , without much loss of purity or elegance , accommodates the diction of Rome to his own conceptions ...
... seems to lie on the side of Cowley . Milton is generally content to express the thoughts of the ancients in their language ; Cowley , without much loss of purity or elegance , accommodates the diction of Rome to his own conceptions ...
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... : - ' To the New Exchange , to the book- seller's there .... Cowley , he tells me , is dead ; who , it seems , was a mighty civil , serious man ; which I did not с 48 49 50 a better man behind him in England COWLEY 17 DENHAM.
... : - ' To the New Exchange , to the book- seller's there .... Cowley , he tells me , is dead ; who , it seems , was a mighty civil , serious man ; which I did not с 48 49 50 a better man behind him in England COWLEY 17 DENHAM.
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