The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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... thing is distinctly known , but all is shewn confused and enlarged through the mist of panegyric . ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in the year one thousand six hundred and eighteen . His father was a grocer , whose condition Dr. Sprat conceals ...
... thing is distinctly known , but all is shewn confused and enlarged through the mist of panegyric . ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in the year one thousand six hundred and eighteen . His father was a grocer , whose condition Dr. Sprat conceals ...
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... thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a commodious inci dent , though the book to which he prefixed his nar- rative contained its confutation . A memory admit- ting some things , and rejecting others , an ...
... thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a commodious inci dent , though the book to which he prefixed his nar- rative contained its confutation . A memory admit- ting some things , and rejecting others , an ...
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... things of real importance with real men and real women , and at that time did not much employ his thoughts upon phantoms of ... thing now in which we are vitally concerned : I am one of the last hopers , and yet cannot now abstain from ...
... things of real importance with real men and real women , and at that time did not much employ his thoughts upon phantoms of ... thing now in which we are vitally concerned : I am one of the last hopers , and yet cannot now abstain from ...
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... thing to that purpose . " This expression from a secretary of the present time would be considered as merely ludicrous , or at most as an ostentatious display of scholarship ; but the manners of that time were so tinged with ...
... thing to that purpose . " This expression from a secretary of the present time would be considered as merely ludicrous , or at most as an ostentatious display of scholarship ; but the manners of that time were so tinged with ...
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... things in this nation . " Soon after his return to London , he was seized by some messengers of the usurping powers , who were sent out in quest of another man ; and , being examined , was put into confinement , from which he was not ...
... things in this nation . " Soon after his return to London , he was seized by some messengers of the usurping powers , who were sent out in quest of another man ; and , being examined , was put into confinement , from which he was not ...
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