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... considered as merely ludi- crous , or at most as an ostentatious display of scholarship ; but the manners of that time were so tinged with superstition , that I cannot but suspect Cowley of having consulted on this great occasion the ...
... considered as merely ludi- crous , or at most as an ostentatious display of scholarship ; but the manners of that time were so tinged with superstition , that I cannot but suspect Cowley of having consulted on this great occasion the ...
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... considered only as a slender supplement . Cowley , like other poets who have written with narrow views , and , instead of tracing in- tellectual pleasures in the minds of men , paid their court to temporary prejudices , has been at one ...
... considered only as a slender supplement . Cowley , like other poets who have written with narrow views , and , instead of tracing in- tellectual pleasures in the minds of men , paid their court to temporary prejudices , has been at one ...
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... considered ; a species of composition , which Cowley thinks Pancirolus might have counted in " his list of the lost inventions of antiquity , " and which he has made a bold and vigorous attempt to re- cover . The purpose for which he ...
... considered ; a species of composition , which Cowley thinks Pancirolus might have counted in " his list of the lost inventions of antiquity , " and which he has made a bold and vigorous attempt to re- cover . The purpose for which he ...
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... considered ; a poem which the author designed to have ex- tended to twelve books , merely , as he makes no scruple of declaring , because the Eneid had that number : but he had leisure or perseverance only to write the third part . Epic ...
... considered ; a poem which the author designed to have ex- tended to twelve books , merely , as he makes no scruple of declaring , because the Eneid had that number : but he had leisure or perseverance only to write the third part . Epic ...
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... considered , that words being arbitrary must owe their power to association , and have the influence , and that only , which custom has given them . Language is the dress of thought : and as the noblest mien , or most graceful action ...
... considered , that words being arbitrary must owe their power to association , and have the influence , and that only , which custom has given them . Language is the dress of thought : and as the noblest mien , or most graceful action ...
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