The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1858 - English poetry |
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... shewn confused and enlarged through the mist of panegyric . ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in the year one thousand six hundred and eighteen . His father was a grocer , whose con- dition Dr. Sprat conceals under the general appellation of a ...
... shewn confused and enlarged through the mist of panegyric . ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in the year one thousand six hundred and eighteen . His father was a grocer , whose con- dition Dr. Sprat conceals under the general appellation of a ...
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... shew him to have been above the affectation of unseasonable elegance , and to have known that the business of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetoric . One passage , however , seems not unworthy of some notice ...
... shew him to have been above the affectation of unseasonable elegance , and to have known that the business of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetoric . One passage , however , seems not unworthy of some notice ...
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... shew his loyalty at the hazard of his friend , but by his friend's permission . Of the verses on Oliver's death , in which Wood's narrative seems to imply something encomiastic , there has been no appearance . There is a discourse ...
... shew his loyalty at the hazard of his friend , but by his friend's permission . Of the verses on Oliver's death , in which Wood's narrative seems to imply something encomiastic , there has been no appearance . There is a discourse ...
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... shewn him , he received the news of his ill - success , not with so much firmness as might have been expected from so great a man . " What firmness they expected , or what weakness Cowley discovered , cannot be known . He that misses ...
... shewn him , he received the news of his ill - success , not with so much firmness as might have been expected from so great a man . " What firmness they expected , or what weakness Cowley discovered , cannot be known . He that misses ...
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Samuel Johnson. So differently are things seen ! and so differently are they shewn ! but actions are visible , though motives are secret . Cowley certainly retired : first to Barn - elms , and afterwards to Chertsey , in Surry . He seems ...
Samuel Johnson. So differently are things seen ! and so differently are they shewn ! but actions are visible , though motives are secret . Cowley certainly retired : first to Barn - elms , and afterwards to Chertsey , in Surry . He seems ...
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