The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1B. Tauchnitz, 1858 - 402 pages |
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... irrecoverably a poet . Such are the accidents which , sometimes remembered , and perhaps sometimes forgotten , produce that Johnson's Lives . I. 1 particular designation of mind , and propensity for som certain COWLEY.
... irrecoverably a poet . Such are the accidents which , sometimes remembered , and perhaps sometimes forgotten , produce that Johnson's Lives . I. 1 particular designation of mind , and propensity for som certain COWLEY.
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Samuel Johnson. particular designation of mind , and propensity for som certain science or employment , which is ... minds seem scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , since a volume of his poems ...
Samuel Johnson. particular designation of mind , and propensity for som certain science or employment , which is ... minds seem scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , since a volume of his poems ...
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... mind to an elaborate purgation of his character from crimes which he was never within the possibility of committing , differs only by the infrequency of his folly from him who praises beauty which he never saw ; complains of jealousy ...
... mind to an elaborate purgation of his character from crimes which he was never within the possibility of committing , differs only by the infrequency of his folly from him who praises beauty which he never saw ; complains of jealousy ...
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... mind ( whereby he gained the ill - will of some of his friends ) he went into France again , having made a copy of verses on Oliver's death . " This is no favourable representation , yet even in this not much wrong can be discovered ...
... mind ( whereby he gained the ill - will of some of his friends ) he went into France again , having made a copy of verses on Oliver's death . " This is no favourable representation , yet even in this not much wrong can be discovered ...
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... mind , which , in the greatest throng of his former business , had still called upon him , and represented to him the true delights of solitary studies , of temperate pleasures , and a moderate revenue below the malice and flatteries of ...
... mind , which , in the greatest throng of his former business , had still called upon him , and represented to him the true delights of solitary studies , of temperate pleasures , and a moderate revenue below the malice and flatteries of ...
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