LivesA. Miller, 1800 - English poetry |
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... known . I must therefore recommend the perusal of his work , to which my narration can be considered only as a slender supplement . COWLEY , like other poets who have written with narrow views , and , instead of tracing intellectual ...
... known . I must therefore recommend the perusal of his work , to which my narration can be considered only as a slender supplement . COWLEY , like other poets who have written with narrow views , and , instead of tracing intellectual ...
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... known formality : But all pains eminently lie in thee . COWLEY . THEY were not always strictly curious , whether the opinions from which they drew their illustrations were true ; it was enough that they were popular . Bacon remarks ...
... known formality : But all pains eminently lie in thee . COWLEY . THEY were not always strictly curious , whether the opinions from which they drew their illustrations were true ; it was enough that they were popular . Bacon remarks ...
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... known measure of the lines , and uniform structure of the stanzas , by which the voice is regulated , and the memory relieved . If the Pindarick style be , what Cowley thinks it , the highest and noblest kind of writing in verse , it ...
... known measure of the lines , and uniform structure of the stanzas , by which the voice is regulated , and the memory relieved . If the Pindarick style be , what Cowley thinks it , the highest and noblest kind of writing in verse , it ...
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... known wealth was so great , that he might have borrowed without loss of credit . In his elegy on Sir Henry Wotton , the last lines have such resemblance to the noble epigram of Grotius upon the death of Scaliger , that I cannot but ...
... known wealth was so great , that he might have borrowed without loss of credit . In his elegy on Sir Henry Wotton , the last lines have such resemblance to the noble epigram of Grotius upon the death of Scaliger , that I cannot but ...
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... known . His poem on the death of Cowley was his last , and , among his shorter works , his best performance : the numbers are musical , and the thoughts are just . " COOPER'S HILL " is the work that confers upon him the rank and dignity ...
... known . His poem on the death of Cowley was his last , and , among his shorter works , his best performance : the numbers are musical , and the thoughts are just . " COOPER'S HILL " is the work that confers upon him the rank and dignity ...
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