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... a comedy which Cowley says was neither written nor acted , but rough - drawn by him , and repeated by the scholars . That this comedy was printed during his absence from his country , he appears to have considered as injurious ...
... a comedy which Cowley says was neither written nor acted , but rough - drawn by him , and repeated by the scholars . That this comedy was printed during his absence from his country , he appears to have considered as injurious ...
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A doctor of physic however he was made at Oxford in December , 1657 ; and in the commencement of the Royal Society , of which an account has been given by Dr. Birch , he appears busy among the experimental philosophers with the title of ...
A doctor of physic however he was made at Oxford in December , 1657 ; and in the commencement of the Royal Society , of which an account has been given by Dr. Birch , he appears busy among the experimental philosophers with the title of ...
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It as that he might easily find his way back , when appears , however , from the Theatrical Register solitude should grow tedious . His retreat was of Downes , the prompter , to have been popularly at first but slenderly accommodated ...
It as that he might easily find his way back , when appears , however , from the Theatrical Register solitude should grow tedious . His retreat was of Downes , the prompter , to have been popularly at first but slenderly accommodated ...
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Jewels at nose and lips but ill appear ; Rather than all things wit , let none be there . ... His strength always appears in his agility ; his volatility is not the flutter of a light , but the bound of an elastic mind .
Jewels at nose and lips but ill appear ; Rather than all things wit , let none be there . ... His strength always appears in his agility ; his volatility is not the flutter of a light , but the bound of an elastic mind .
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It is related by Clarendon that Cowley always acknowledges his obligation to the learning and industry of Jonson ; but I have found no traces of Jonson in his works : to emulate Donne appears to have been his purpose ; and from Donne he ...
It is related by Clarendon that Cowley always acknowledges his obligation to the learning and industry of Jonson ; but I have found no traces of Jonson in his works : to emulate Donne appears to have been his purpose ; and from Donne he ...
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| Title | The Lives of the English Poets |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | Jones & Company, 1825 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 6 Mar 2009 |
| Length | 363 pages |
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