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Page 1
... produced a funeral ora- tion rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life , of Cowley ; for he writes with so little detail , that scarcely any thing is distinctly known , but all is shown con- fused and enlarged ...
... produced a funeral ora- tion rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life , of Cowley ; for he writes with so little detail , that scarcely any thing is distinctly known , but all is shown con- fused and enlarged ...
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... produced actions of heroism , and ́ ́ effusions of wit ; but it seems as reasonable to appear the champion as the poet of an airy nothing , " and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley might have learned from his master Pindar to call ...
... produced actions of heroism , and ́ ́ effusions of wit ; but it seems as reasonable to appear the champion as the poet of an airy nothing , " and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley might have learned from his master Pindar to call ...
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... produced , from the same university , the two great poets , Cowley and Milton , of dissimilar genius , of opposite principles ; but concurring in the cultivation of Latin poetry , in which the English , till their works and May's poem ...
... produced , from the same university , the two great poets , Cowley and Milton , of dissimilar genius , of opposite principles ; but concurring in the cultivation of Latin poetry , in which the English , till their works and May's poem ...
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... produced it * under the title of " The Cutter of Coleman street . " + It was treated on the stage with great severity , and was afterward censured as a satire on the King's party . des introduced by Suckling , perhaps övery geniera.i ...
... produced it * under the title of " The Cutter of Coleman street . " + It was treated on the stage with great severity , and was afterward censured as a satire on the King's party . des introduced by Suckling , perhaps övery geniera.i ...
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... produced by aggregation , and littleness by dispersion . Great thoughts are always general , and consist in pos- itions not limited by exceptions , and in descrip- tions not descending to minuteness . It is with great propriety that ...
... produced by aggregation , and littleness by dispersion . Great thoughts are always general , and consist in pos- itions not limited by exceptions , and in descrip- tions not descending to minuteness . It is with great propriety that ...
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