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... seems to have been misled by the portrait of Cowley being by mistake marked with the age of thirteen years . - R ... seem scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , since a volume of his poems ...
... seems to have been misled by the portrait of Cowley being by mistake marked with the age of thirteen years . - R ... seem scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , since a volume of his poems ...
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... seems to be now universally neglect- ed . At the beginning of the civil war , as the Prince passed through Cambridge in his way to York , he was entertained with a representation of the " Guardian , " a comedy which Cowley says was ...
... seems to be now universally neglect- ed . At the beginning of the civil war , as the Prince passed through Cambridge in his way to York , he was entertained with a representation of the " Guardian , " a comedy which Cowley says was ...
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... seems not unworthy of some notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agitation : " The Scotch treaty , " says he , " is the only thing now in which we are vitally concerned : I am one of the last hopers , and yet cannot now ab ...
... seems not unworthy of some notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agitation : " The Scotch treaty , " says he , " is the only thing now in which we are vitally concerned : I am one of the last hopers , and yet cannot now ab ...
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... seems to imply something en- comiastic , there has been no appearance . There is a discourse concerning his government , indeed , with verses intermixed , but such as certainly gained its author no friends among the abettors of ...
... seems to imply something en- comiastic , there has been no appearance . There is a discourse concerning his government , indeed , with verses intermixed , but such as certainly gained its author no friends among the abettors of ...
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... seems to have excited more contempt than pity . These unlucky incidents are brought , mali- ciously enough , together in some stanzas , writ- ten about that time , on the choice of a laureat ; a mode of satire , by which , since it was ...
... seems to have excited more contempt than pity . These unlucky incidents are brought , mali- ciously enough , together in some stanzas , writ- ten about that time , on the choice of a laureat ; a mode of satire , by which , since it was ...
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The Lives Of The English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore And Pope Samuel Johnson No preview available - 2005 |
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