The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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... thought freemen of their company without paying some duties to love . LYON LONDON . Life of Cowley.p.5 . Printed for EC . & L.Rivington , and VILLE the other Proprietors . 1820 . TOTHEQUE DE DE LYON CONTENTS TO VOL . I. Page COWLEY ...
... thought freemen of their company without paying some duties to love . LYON LONDON . Life of Cowley.p.5 . Printed for EC . & L.Rivington , and VILLE the other Proprietors . 1820 . TOTHEQUE DE DE LYON CONTENTS TO VOL . I. Page COWLEY ...
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... thought freemen of their company without paying some duties , or obliging themselves to be true to Love . " This obligation to amorous ditties owes , I be- lieve , its original to the fame of Petrarch , who , in an age rude and ...
... thought freemen of their company without paying some duties , or obliging themselves to be true to Love . " This obligation to amorous ditties owes , I be- lieve , its original to the fame of Petrarch , who , in an age rude and ...
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... thoughts of the ancients in their language ; Cowley , without much loss of purity or elegance , accommodates the ... thought proper , fitted his old comedy of " The Guardian " for the stage , he produced it under the title of " The ...
... thoughts of the ancients in their language ; Cowley , without much loss of purity or elegance , accommodates the ... thought proper , fitted his old comedy of " The Guardian " for the stage , he produced it under the title of " The ...
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... thought , a rebuke , Unless he had done some notable folly : Writ verses unjustly in praise of Sam Tuke , Or printed his pitiful Melancholy . ' His vehement desire of retirement now came again upon him . " Not finding , " says the ...
... thought , a rebuke , Unless he had done some notable folly : Writ verses unjustly in praise of Sam Tuke , Or printed his pitiful Melancholy . ' His vehement desire of retirement now came again upon him . " Not finding , " says the ...
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... thought , but was never before so well expressed , " they certainly never attained , nor ever sought it ; for they endeavoured to be sin- gular in their thoughts , and were careless of their diction . But Pope's account of wit is ...
... thought , but was never before so well expressed , " they certainly never attained , nor ever sought it ; for they endeavoured to be sin- gular in their thoughts , and were careless of their diction . But Pope's account of wit is ...
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