The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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... writes with so little detail , that scarcely any 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 ...
... writes with so little detail , that scarcely any 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 ...
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... " 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. It is surely not difficult , in the solitude of COWLEY . 5.
... " 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. It is surely not difficult , in the solitude of COWLEY . 5.
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... Hill . You might very conveniently come hither the way of Hampton Town , lying there one night . I write this in pain , and can say no more : Verbum sapienti . " He did not long enjoy the pleasure , or suffer COWLEY . 15.
... Hill . You might very conveniently come hither the way of Hampton Town , lying there one night . I write this in pain , and can say no more : Verbum sapienti . " He did not long enjoy the pleasure , or suffer COWLEY . 15.
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... write on their plan it was at least necessary to read and think . No man could be born a metaphysical poet , nor assume the dignity of a writer , by descriptions copied from descrip- tions , by imitations borrowed from imitations , by ...
... write on their plan it was at least necessary to read and think . No man could be born a metaphysical poet , nor assume the dignity of a writer , by descriptions copied from descrip- tions , by imitations borrowed from imitations , by ...
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... writing , which was , I believe , bor- rowed from Marino and his followers , had been recommended by the example of Donne , a man of very extensive and various knowledge ; and by Jonson , whose manner resembled that of Donne more in the ...
... writing , which was , I believe , bor- rowed from Marino and his followers , had been recommended by the example of Donne , a man of very extensive and various knowledge ; and by Jonson , whose manner resembled that of Donne more in the ...
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