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This comedy is of the pastoral kind , which requires no acquaintance with the living world , and therefore the time at which it was composed adds little to the wonders of Cowley's minority . In 1636 , he was removed to Cambridge , where ...
This comedy is of the pastoral kind , which requires no acquaintance with the living world , and therefore the time at which it was composed adds little to the wonders of Cowley's minority . In 1636 , he was removed to Cambridge , where ...
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But wit , abstracted from its effects upon the hearer , may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concors ; a combination of dissimilar images , or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently ...
But wit , abstracted from its effects upon the hearer , may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concors ; a combination of dissimilar images , or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently ...
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Their wish was only ness of sentiment . to say what they hoped had never been said before . ; 1 This kind of writing , which was , I believe , borrowed from Marino and his followers , had been recommended by the example of Donne , a man ...
Their wish was only ness of sentiment . to say what they hoped had never been said before . ; 1 This kind of writing , which was , I believe , borrowed from Marino and his followers , had been recommended by the example of Donne , a man ...
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... and perhaps , if they would honestly declare their own perceptions , to far the greater part of those whom courtesy and ignorance are content to style the learned . These little pieces will be found more finished in their kind ...
... and perhaps , if they would honestly declare their own perceptions , to far the greater part of those whom courtesy and ignorance are content to style the learned . These little pieces will be found more finished in their kind ...
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Cowley , whatever was his subject , seems to have been carried , by a kind of destiny , to the light and the familiar , or to conceits which require still more ignoble epithets . A slaughter in the Red Sea new dies the water's name ...
Cowley , whatever was his subject , seems to have been carried , by a kind of destiny , to the light and the familiar , or to conceits which require still more ignoble epithets . A slaughter in the Red Sea new dies the water's name ...
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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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