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Samuel Johnson. HARVARD COLLEGE 1935 LIBRARY W. Sumner Appleton CONTENTS OF VOLUME I. PAGE COWLEY I DENHAM 48 MILTON 10453.24.
Samuel Johnson. HARVARD COLLEGE 1935 LIBRARY W. Sumner Appleton CONTENTS OF VOLUME I. PAGE COWLEY I DENHAM 48 MILTON 10453.24.
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Samuel Johnson. CONTENTS OF VOLUME I. PAGE COWLEY I DENHAM 48 MILTON 56 BUTLER 120 ROCHESTER 131 ROSCOMMON 137 OTWAY 145 WALLER 149 POMFRET 187 DORSET 188 STEPNEY 191 J. PHILIPS 193 WALSH 205 DRYDEN 207 SMITH 804 DUKE 322 KING 323 VI ...
Samuel Johnson. CONTENTS OF VOLUME I. PAGE COWLEY I DENHAM 48 MILTON 56 BUTLER 120 ROCHESTER 131 ROSCOMMON 137 OTWAY 145 WALLER 149 POMFRET 187 DORSET 188 STEPNEY 191 J. PHILIPS 193 WALSH 205 DRYDEN 207 SMITH 804 DUKE 322 KING 323 VI ...
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... Milton , and Pope , might be said " to lisp in numbers ; " and have given such early proofs , not only of powers of language , but of comprehension of things , as to more tardy minds seem scarcely credible . But of the learned ...
... Milton , and Pope , might be said " to lisp in numbers ; " and have given such early proofs , not only of powers of language , but of comprehension of things , as to more tardy minds seem scarcely credible . But of the learned ...
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... praises beauty which he never saw ; complains of jealousy which he never felt ; sup- poses himself sometimes invited , and sometimes forsaken ; fatigues. * Barnesii Anacreontem . * L'Allegro of Milton . A Lover neither Dead nor 4 COWLEY .
... praises beauty which he never saw ; complains of jealousy which he never felt ; sup- poses himself sometimes invited , and sometimes forsaken ; fatigues. * Barnesii Anacreontem . * L'Allegro of Milton . A Lover neither Dead nor 4 COWLEY .
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... trees , in heroic numbers . At the same time were produced , from the same university , the two great poets , Cowley and Milton , of dissimilar genius , of opposite principles ; but concurring in the cultivation of COWLEY . 7.
... trees , in heroic numbers . At the same time were produced , from the same university , the two great poets , Cowley and Milton , of dissimilar genius , of opposite principles ; but concurring in the cultivation of COWLEY . 7.
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