The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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... considered as injurious to his re putation ; though , during the suppression of the theatres , it was sometimes privately acted with suf- ficient approbation . In 1643 , being now master of arts , he was , by the prevalence of the ...
... considered as injurious to his re putation ; though , during the suppression of the theatres , it was sometimes privately acted with suf- ficient approbation . In 1643 , being now master of arts , he was , by the prevalence of the ...
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... considered as merely ludicrous , or at most as an ostentatious display of scholarship ; but the manners of that time were so tinged with superstition , that I cannot but suspect . Cowley of having consulted on this great occasion the ...
... considered as merely ludicrous , or at most as an ostentatious display of scholarship ; but the manners of that time were so tinged with superstition , that I cannot but suspect . Cowley of having consulted on this great occasion the ...
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... considered as a satire on the roy- alists . That he might shorten this tedious suspense , he published his pretensions and his discontent , in an ode called " The Complaint ; " in which he styles himself the melancholy Cowley . This met ...
... considered as a satire on the roy- alists . That he might shorten this tedious suspense , he published his pretensions and his discontent , in an ode called " The Complaint ; " in which he styles himself the melancholy Cowley . This met ...
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... considered only as a slender supple- ment . Cowley , like other poets who have written with narrow views , and , instead of tracing intellectual pleasures in the minds of men , paid their court to temporary prejudices , has been at one ...
... considered only as a slender supple- ment . Cowley , like other poets who have written with narrow views , and , instead of tracing intellectual pleasures in the minds of men , paid their court to temporary prejudices , has been at one ...
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... considered as wit which is at once na- tural and new , that which , though not obvious , is , upon its first production , acknowledged to be just ; if it be that which he that never found it wonders how he missed ; to wit of this kind ...
... considered as wit which is at once na- tural and new , that which , though not obvious , is , upon its first production , acknowledged to be just ; if it be that which he that never found it wonders how he missed ; to wit of this kind ...
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