The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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... seem scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , since a volume of his poems was ... 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 was ... seems to have been misled by the portrait of Cowley being by mistake marked with the age of thirteen years . - R ...
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... seems to be now uni- versally neglected . 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 " Guar dian , " a comedy , which Cowley says was ...
... seems to be now uni- versally neglected . 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 " Guar dian , " a comedy , which Cowley says was ...
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... seems as reasonable to appear the cham- pion as the poet of an " airy nothing , " and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley might have learned from his master Pindar to call " the dream of a shadow , " Barnesii Anacreontem . - Dr . J ...
... seems as reasonable to appear the cham- pion as the poet of an " airy nothing , " and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley might have learned from his master Pindar to call " the dream of a shadow , " Barnesii Anacreontem . - Dr . J ...
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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 abstain ...
... 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 abstain ...
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... seems to have inserted something suppressed in subsequent editions , which was in- terpreted to denote some ... seem to have lessened his repu- tation . His wish for retirement we can easily be- lieve to be undissembled ; a man harassed ...
... seems to have inserted something suppressed in subsequent editions , which was in- terpreted to denote some ... seem to have lessened his repu- tation . His wish for retirement we can easily be- lieve to be undissembled ; a man harassed ...
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