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... tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a com- ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in the year one modious incident , though the book to which he thousand six hundred and eighteen . His fath- prefixed his ...
... tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a com- ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in the year one modious incident , though the book to which he thousand six hundred and eighteen . His fath- prefixed his ...
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... tell his passion . we This consideration cannot but abate , in some measure , the reader's esteem for the work and the author . To love excellence , is natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover to solicit reci- procal regard by an ...
... tell his passion . we This consideration cannot but abate , in some measure , the reader's esteem for the work and the author . To love excellence , is natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover to solicit reci- procal regard by an ...
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... tell you the truth ( which I take to be an argument above all the rest , ) Virgil has told the same thing to that pur- pose . " " This expression from a secretary of the pre- sent time would be considered as merely ludi- crous , or at ...
... tell you the truth ( which I take to be an argument above all the rest , ) Virgil has told the same thing to that pur- pose . " " This expression from a secretary of the pre- sent time would be considered as merely ludi- crous , or at ...
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... tell , cannot however now be known ; I must therefore recommend the perusal of his work , to which my narration can be considered only as a slender supplement . Cowley , like other poets who have written with narrow views , and ...
... tell , cannot however now be known ; I must therefore recommend the perusal of his work , to which my narration can be considered only as a slender supplement . Cowley , like other poets who have written with narrow views , and ...
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... telling the history of Lucifer , who was , he says , Once general of a gilded host of sprites , Like Hesper leading forth the spangled nights ; But down like lightning , which him struck , he came , And roar'd at his first plunge into ...
... telling the history of Lucifer , who was , he says , Once general of a gilded host of sprites , Like Hesper leading forth the spangled nights ; But down like lightning , which him struck , he came , And roar'd at his first plunge into ...
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Addison Æneid afterwards appears beauties blank verse called censure character Charles Dryden composition considered Cowley criticism death delight diction diligence Dorset Dryden Duke Dunciad Earl elegance endeavoured English English poetry Essay excellence faults favour friends genius Georgics honour Hudibras Iliad images imagination imitation kind King known labour Lady language Latin learning letter lines lived Lord Lord Halifax ment mentioned Milton mind nature never night Night Thoughts nihil numbers observed occasion once opinion panegyric Paradise Lost passage passion performance perhaps Pindar play pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise published Queen racter reader reason received remarks reputation rhyme satire Savage says seems sent sentiments sometimes supposed Swift Syphax Tatler thing thought tion told tragedy translation verses Virgil virtue Waller whigs write written wrote Young