LivesA. Miller, 1800 - English poetry |
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... thing is distinctly known , but all is shewn confused and enlarged through the mist of panegyrick . ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in the year one thousand six hundred and eighteen . His father was a grocer , whose condition Dr. Sprat conceals ...
... thing is distinctly known , but all is shewn confused and enlarged through the mist of panegyrick . ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in the year one thousand six hundred and eighteen . His father was a grocer , whose condition Dr. Sprat conceals ...
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... thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a commodious incident , though the book to which he prefixed his narrative contained its confutation . A memory admitting some things , and rejecting others , an ...
... thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a commodious incident , though the book to which he prefixed his narrative contained its confutation . A memory admitting some things , and rejecting others , an ...
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... thing now in which we are vitaj " concerned ; I am one of the last hopers , and yet cannot now abstain from be- " lieving , that an agreement will be made : all people upon the place incline to " that of union . The Scotch will moderate ...
... thing now in which we are vitaj " concerned ; I am one of the last hopers , and yet cannot now abstain from be- " lieving , that an agreement will be made : all people upon the place incline to " that of union . The Scotch will moderate ...
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... things subject by their nature to the choice of man , has its changes and fashions , and at different times take ... thing ; they neither copied nature for life ; neither painted the forms of matter , nor represented the operations ...
... things subject by their nature to the choice of man , has its changes and fashions , and at different times take ... thing ; they neither copied nature for life ; neither painted the forms of matter , nor represented the operations ...
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... thing there naturally grows A Balsamum to keep it fresh and new , If ' twere not injur'd by extrinsique blows ; Your youth and beauty are this balm in you ; But you , of learning and religion , And virtue and such ingredients , have ...
... thing there naturally grows A Balsamum to keep it fresh and new , If ' twere not injur'd by extrinsique blows ; Your youth and beauty are this balm in you ; But you , of learning and religion , And virtue and such ingredients , have ...
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