Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-DrydenClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... verse , he became , as he relates , irrecoverably a poet * . Such are the accidents , which , some- times remembered , and perhaps sometimes forgotten , produce that particular designation of mind and propensity for some certain science ...
... verse , he became , as he relates , irrecoverably a poet * . Such are the accidents , which , some- times remembered , and perhaps sometimes forgotten , produce that particular designation of mind and propensity for some certain science ...
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... verse , but mere prose . It was printed with a dedication in verse to Dr. Comber , master of the college , but having neither the facility of a popular nor the accuracy of a learned work , it seems to be now universally neglected . I ...
... verse , but mere prose . It was printed with a dedication in verse to Dr. Comber , master of the college , but having neither the facility of a popular nor the accuracy of a learned work , it seems to be now universally neglected . I ...
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... verses on Oliver's death , in which Wood's narrative 30 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 ...
... verses on Oliver's death , in which Wood's narrative 30 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 ...
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... verse ; the third and fourth the beauties of flowers in various measures ; and in the fifth and sixth , the uses of trees in heroick numbers . 33 At the same time were produced from the same university the two great Poets , Cowley and ...
... verse ; the third and fourth the beauties of flowers in various measures ; and in the fifth and sixth , the uses of trees in heroick numbers . 33 At the same time were produced from the same university the two great Poets , Cowley and ...
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... Cowley's Muse the same ill- treatment had , Whose verse shall live for ever to upbraid Th ' ungrateful world that left such worth unpaid . ' Oldham's Works , 1703 , p . 420 . 37 38 } Comedy of The Guardian for the stage COWLEY 13.
... Cowley's Muse the same ill- treatment had , Whose verse shall live for ever to upbraid Th ' ungrateful world that left such worth unpaid . ' Oldham's Works , 1703 , p . 420 . 37 38 } Comedy of The Guardian for the stage COWLEY 13.
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