The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1858 - English poetry |
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... as he relates , irrecoverably a poet . Such are the accidents which , sometimes remembered , and perhaps sometimes forgotten , produce that Johnson's Lives . I. 1 Sir particular designation of mind , and propensity for some COWLEY.
... as he relates , irrecoverably a poet . Such are the accidents which , sometimes remembered , and perhaps sometimes forgotten , produce that Johnson's Lives . I. 1 Sir particular designation of mind , and propensity for some COWLEY.
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Samuel Johnson. Sir particular designation of mind , and propensity for some certain science or employment , which is ... minds seem scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , since a volume of his ...
Samuel Johnson. Sir particular designation of mind , and propensity for some certain science or employment , which is ... minds seem scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , since a volume of his ...
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... mind of the greatest vigour and activity . Two years after his settlement at Cambridge he published " Love's Riddle , " with a poetical dedication to Sir Kenelm Digby ; of whose acquaintance all his cotemporaries seem to have been ...
... mind of the greatest vigour and activity . Two years after his settlement at Cambridge he published " Love's Riddle , " with a poetical dedication to Sir Kenelm Digby ; of whose acquaintance all his cotemporaries seem to have been ...
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... mind to an elaborate purgation of his character from crimes which he was never within the possibility of committing , differs only by the infrequency of his folly from him who praises beauty which he never saw ; complains of jealousy ...
... mind to an elaborate purgation of his character from crimes which he was never within the possibility of committing , differs only by the infrequency of his folly from him who praises beauty which he never saw ; complains of jealousy ...
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... mind of Cowley turned into poetry . He composed in Latin several books on plants , of which the first and second display the qualities of herbs , in elegiac verse ; the third and fourth , the beauties of flowers in various measures ...
... mind of Cowley turned into poetry . He composed in Latin several books on plants , of which the first and second display the qualities of herbs , in elegiac verse ; the third and fourth , the beauties of flowers in various measures ...
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