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... printed in 14 volumes . Weekly Nos . price 6d . or Parts , 1s . each , beautifully and closely printed , in a clear , bold type , double columns , 8vo . on fine vellum paper , hotpressed , and offering the same IMMENSE ADVANTAGE , in ...
... printed in 14 volumes . Weekly Nos . price 6d . or Parts , 1s . each , beautifully and closely printed , in a clear , bold type , double columns , 8vo . on fine vellum paper , hotpressed , and offering the same IMMENSE ADVANTAGE , in ...
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... printed in his thirteenth year ; * containing , with other poeti- • This volume was not published before 1633 , when Dr. Johnson , as well Cowley was fifteen years old . as former biographers , seems to have been misled by the portrait ...
... printed in his thirteenth year ; * containing , with other poeti- • This volume was not published before 1633 , when Dr. Johnson , as well Cowley was fifteen years old . as former biographers , seems to have been misled by the portrait ...
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... printed , with a dedication in verse , to Dr. Comber , mas- ter of the college ; but , having neither the facil- ity of a popular nor the accuracy of a learned work , it seems to be now universally neglect- ed . At the beginning of the ...
... printed , with a dedication in verse , to Dr. Comber , mas- ter of the college ; but , having neither the facil- ity of a popular nor the accuracy of a learned work , it seems to be now universally neglect- ed . At the beginning of the ...
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... printed his pitiful Melancholy . " His vehement desire of retirement now came again upon him . " Not finding , " says the mo- rose Wood , " that preferment conferred upon him which he expected , while others for their money carried away ...
... printed his pitiful Melancholy . " His vehement desire of retirement now came again upon him . " Not finding , " says the mo- rose Wood , " that preferment conferred upon him which he expected , while others for their money carried away ...
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... Printing . The danger of such unbounded liberty , and the danger of bounding it , have produced a problem in the science of go- vernment , which human understanding seems hitherto unable to solve . If nothing may be published but what ...
... Printing . The danger of such unbounded liberty , and the danger of bounding it , have produced a problem in the science of go- vernment , which human understanding seems hitherto unable to solve . If nothing may be published but what ...
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Addison Æneid afterwards appears beauties blank verse called censure character Charles Dryden composition considered Cowley criticism death delight diction diligence Dryden Duke Dunciad Earl elegance endeavoured English English poetry Essay excellence faults favour friends genius Georgics honour Hudibras Iliad images imagination imitation kind King known labour Lady language Latin learning letter lines lived Lord Lord Halifax ment mentioned Milton mind nature never night Night Thoughts nihil numbers observed occasion once opinion panegyric Paradise Lost passage passion performance perhaps Pindar play pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise published Queen racter reader reason received remarks reputation rhyme satire Savage says seems sent sentiments sometimes supposed Swift Syphax Tatler thing thought tion told tragedy translation verses Virgil virtue Waller whigs write written wrote Young