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N From this account of their compositions it will be readily inferred , that they were not Such are the remarks and memorials which I have been able to add to the narrative of Dr. Sprat ; who , writing when the feuds of the civil war ...
N From this account of their compositions it will be readily inferred , that they were not Such are the remarks and memorials which I have been able to add to the narrative of Dr. Sprat ; who , writing when the feuds of the civil war ...
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... but useful to leisure ; as Epicurean deities , making remarks those who know their value ; and such as , on the actions of men , and the vicissitudes of when they are expanded to perspicuity , and life , without interest and without ...
... but useful to leisure ; as Epicurean deities , making remarks those who know their value ; and such as , on the actions of men , and the vicissitudes of when they are expanded to perspicuity , and life , without interest and without ...
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Bacon remarks , that some falsehoods are continued by tradition , because they supply commodious allusions . It gave a piteous groan , and so it broke In vain it something would have spoke ; The love within too strong for❜t was ...
Bacon remarks , that some falsehoods are continued by tradition , because they supply commodious allusions . It gave a piteous groan , and so it broke In vain it something would have spoke ; The love within too strong for❜t was ...
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Cowley's critical abilities have not been sufficier tly observed ; the few decisions and remarks , which his prefaces and his notes on the Davideis supply , were at that time accessions to English literature , and show such skill as ...
Cowley's critical abilities have not been sufficier tly observed ; the few decisions and remarks , which his prefaces and his notes on the Davideis supply , were at that time accessions to English literature , and show such skill as ...
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Jonson and Donne , as Dr. Hurd remarks , of pleasure . were then in the highest esteem . 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 and Donne , as Dr. Hurd remarks , of pleasure . were then in the highest esteem . 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 ...
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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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