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... 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 through the mist of pane ...
... 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 through the mist of pane ...
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... tion of unseasonable elegance , and to have known that the business of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetoric . One passage , however , seems not unworthy of some notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in ...
... tion of unseasonable elegance , and to have known that the business of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetoric . One passage , however , seems not unworthy of some notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in ...
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... tion " to dissemble the main design of his com- ing over ; " and , as Mr. Wood relates , " comply- ing with the men then in power ( which was much taken notice of by the royal party , ) he obtained an order to be created doctor of ...
... tion " to dissemble the main design of his com- ing over ; " and , as Mr. Wood relates , " comply- ing with the men then in power ( which was much taken notice of by the royal party , ) he obtained an order to be created doctor of ...
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... tion . In the verses for Reason , is a passage which Bentley , in the only English verses which he is known to have written , seems to have copied , though with the inferiority of an imitator . The Holy Book like the eighth sphere doth ...
... tion . In the verses for Reason , is a passage which Bentley , in the only English verses which he is known to have written , seems to have copied , though with the inferiority of an imitator . The Holy Book like the eighth sphere doth ...
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... tion the ancients , he might have found it full- blown in modern Italy . Thus Sannazaro : Aspice quam variis distringar Lesbia curis ! Uror , et heu ! nostro manat ab igne liquor : Sum Nilus , sumque Etna simul ; restringite flamma O ...
... tion the ancients , he might have found it full- blown in modern Italy . Thus Sannazaro : Aspice quam variis distringar Lesbia curis ! Uror , et heu ! nostro manat ab igne liquor : Sum Nilus , sumque Etna simul ; restringite flamma O ...
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