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... praise may safely be credited , as it has never been contradicted by envy or by faction . 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 ...
... praise may safely be credited , as it has never been contradicted by envy or by faction . 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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... praise , there are , as there must be in all Cowley's compositions , some striking thoughts ; but they are not well wrought . His elegy on Sir Henry Wotton is vi- gorous and happy , the series of thoughts is easy and natural , and the ...
... praise , there are , as there must be in all Cowley's compositions , some striking thoughts ; but they are not well wrought . His elegy on Sir Henry Wotton is vi- gorous and happy , the series of thoughts is easy and natural , and the ...
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... praise ; of which it may be said with truth , that no man but Cowley could have written them . * First published in quarto , 1669 , under the title of " Carmen Pindaricum in Theatrum " Sheldonianum in solennibus magnifici Operis ...
... praise ; of which it may be said with truth , that no man but Cowley could have written them . * First published in quarto , 1669 , under the title of " Carmen Pindaricum in Theatrum " Sheldonianum in solennibus magnifici Operis ...
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... praise , and not suffi . ciently enquiring by what means the ancients have continued to delight through all the changes of human manners , he contented himself with a de- ciduous laurel , of which the verdure in its spring was bright ...
... praise , and not suffi . ciently enquiring by what means the ancients have continued to delight through all the changes of human manners , he contented himself with a de- ciduous laurel , of which the verdure in its spring was bright ...
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... praise of Fanshaw's version of Guarini , contains a very sprightly and judicious character of a good translator : " That servile path thou nobly dost decline , " Of tracing word by word , and line by line . " Those are the labour'd ...
... praise of Fanshaw's version of Guarini , contains a very sprightly and judicious character of a good translator : " That servile path thou nobly dost decline , " Of tracing word by word , and line by line . " Those are the labour'd ...
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