Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1933 - English poetry |
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Samuel Johnson. COWLEY THE Life of Cowley , notwithstanding the penury of English biography , has been written by Dr. Sprat , an author whose pregnancy of imagination and ele- gance of language have deservedly set him high in the ranks ...
Samuel Johnson. COWLEY THE Life of Cowley , notwithstanding the penury of English biography , has been written by Dr. Sprat , an author whose pregnancy of imagination and ele- gance of language have deservedly set him high in the ranks ...
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... Cowley turned into poetry . He composed in Latin several books on Plants , of which the first and second display the qualities of Herbs , in elegiac verse ; the third and fourth , the beauties of Flowers in various measures ; and in the ...
... Cowley turned into poetry . He composed in Latin several books on Plants , of which the first and second display the qualities of Herbs , in elegiac verse ; the third and fourth , the beauties of Flowers in various measures ; and in the ...
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... Cowley's works , we find wit and learning unprofitably squan- dered . Attention has no relief ; the affections are ... Cowley , of a mind capacious by nature , and replenished by study . In the general review of Cowley's poetry it will ...
... Cowley's works , we find wit and learning unprofitably squan- dered . Attention has no relief ; the affections are ... Cowley , of a mind capacious by nature , and replenished by study . In the general review of Cowley's poetry it will ...
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