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... died before the birth of his son , and consequently left him to the care of his mother ; whom Wood represents as struggling earnestly to procure him a literary education , and who , as she lived to the age of eighty , had her solicitude ...
... died before the birth of his son , and consequently left him to the care of his mother ; whom Wood represents as struggling earnestly to procure him a literary education , and who , as she lived to the age of eighty , had her solicitude ...
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... died at the Porch - house in Chertsey , 1667 , in the 49th year of his age . He was buried with great pomp near Chau- cer and Spenser , and King Charles pronounced , " That Mr. Cowley had not left behind hir a better man in England ...
... died at the Porch - house in Chertsey , 1667 , in the 49th year of his age . He was buried with great pomp near Chau- cer and Spenser , and King Charles pronounced , " That Mr. Cowley had not left behind hir a better man in England ...
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... died. Like Whiston wanting pyx or stars , In ocean wide or sinks or strays . Cowley seems to have had what Milton is ... dying of a tree on which he had cut his loves , he observes that his flames had burnt up and withered the tree ...
... died. Like Whiston wanting pyx or stars , In ocean wide or sinks or strays . Cowley seems to have had what Milton is ... dying of a tree on which he had cut his loves , he observes that his flames had burnt up and withered the tree ...
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Samuel Johnson. prevailed about half a century ; but at last died gradually away , and other imitations supply its place . The Pindaric Odes have so long enjoyed the highest degree of poetical reputation , that I am not willing to ...
Samuel Johnson. prevailed about half a century ; but at last died gradually away , and other imitations supply its place . The Pindaric Odes have so long enjoyed the highest degree of poetical reputation , that I am not willing to ...
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... died ; and then , notwithstanding his resolutions and professions , he returned again to the vice of gaming , and lost several thousand pounds that had been left him . In 1642 , he published " The Sophy . " This seems to have given him ...
... died ; and then , notwithstanding his resolutions and professions , he returned again to the vice of gaming , and lost several thousand pounds that had been left him . In 1642 , he published " The Sophy . " This seems to have given him ...
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