The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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... published till he had been some time at Cambridge . This comedy is of the pastoral kind , which requires no acquaintance with the living world , and there- fore the time at which it was composed adds little to the wonders of Cowley's ...
... published till he had been some time at Cambridge . This comedy is of the pastoral kind , which requires no acquaintance with the living world , and there- fore the time at which it was composed adds little to the wonders of Cowley's ...
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... published ; for he imagined , as he declared in his preface to a subsequent edition , that " poets are scarcely thought freemen of their company without paying some duties , or obliging themselves to be true to Love . " This obligation ...
... published ; for he imagined , as he declared in his preface to a subsequent edition , that " poets are scarcely thought freemen of their company without paying some duties , or obliging themselves to be true to Love . " This obligation ...
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... published by Brown . These letters , being written like those of other men whose minds are more on things than words , contribute no otherwise to his reputation than as they shew him to have been above the affectation of unsea- sonable ...
... published by Brown . These letters , being written like those of other men whose minds are more on things than words , contribute no otherwise to his reputation than as they shew him to have been above the affectation of unsea- sonable ...
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... published his poems , with a pre- face , in which he seems to have inserted something suppressed in subsequent editions , which was in- terpreted to denote some relaxation of his loyalty . In this preface he declares , that " his desire ...
... published his poems , with a pre- face , in which he seems to have inserted something suppressed in subsequent editions , which was in- terpreted to denote some relaxation of his loyalty . In this preface he declares , that " his desire ...
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... published his pretensions and his discontent , in an ode called " The Complaint ; " in which he styles himself the melancholy Cowley . This met with the usual fortune of complaints , and seems to have ex- cited more contempt than pity ...
... published his pretensions and his discontent , in an ode called " The Complaint ; " in which he styles himself the melancholy Cowley . This met with the usual fortune of complaints , and seems to have ex- cited more contempt than pity ...
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