LivesA. Miller, 1800 - English poetry |
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... language has deservedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral ora- tion rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life of Cowley ; for ...
... language has deservedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral ora- tion rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life of Cowley ; for ...
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... language , but of comprehension of things , as to more tardy minds seems scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , since a volume of his poems was not only written but printed in his thirteenth ...
... language , but of comprehension of things , as to more tardy minds seems scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , since a volume of his poems was not only written but printed in his thirteenth ...
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... language . If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be considered as Wit , which is at once natural and new , that which , though not obvious , is , upon its first production acknowledged to be just ; if it be that , which ...
... language . If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be considered as Wit , which is at once natural and new , that which , though not obvious , is , upon its first production acknowledged to be just ; if it be that , which ...
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... language , and the familiar part of language continues long the same : the dialogue of comedy , when it is transcribed from popular manners and real life , is read from age to age with equal pleasure . The artifices of inversion , by ...
... language , and the familiar part of language continues long the same : the dialogue of comedy , when it is transcribed from popular manners and real life , is read from age to age with equal pleasure . The artifices of inversion , by ...
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... language be forgiven , his strains are such as those of the Theban Bard were to his contemporaries : Begin the song , and strike the living lyre : Lo how the years to come , a numerous and well - fitted quire , All hand in hand do ...
... language be forgiven , his strains are such as those of the Theban Bard were to his contemporaries : Begin the song , and strike the living lyre : Lo how the years to come , a numerous and well - fitted quire , All hand in hand do ...
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