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Page 60
... not of things revealed , but of the reality of revelation . In the verses for Rea- fon is a paffage which Bentley , in the only English verfes which he is known to have written written , seems to have copied , though with the 60 COWLE Y.
... not of things revealed , but of the reality of revelation . In the verses for Rea- fon is a paffage which Bentley , in the only English verfes which he is known to have written written , seems to have copied , though with the 60 COWLE Y.
Page 61
Samuel Johnson. written , seems to have copied , though with the inferiority of an imitator . The holy Book like the eighth sphere doth fhine With thousand lights of truth divine , So numberlefs the stars that to our eye It makes all but ...
Samuel Johnson. written , seems to have copied , though with the inferiority of an imitator . The holy Book like the eighth sphere doth fhine With thousand lights of truth divine , So numberlefs the stars that to our eye It makes all but ...
Page 63
... seems to have been greatesft in the fa- miliar and the feftive . The next clafs of his poems is called The Miftrefs , of which it is not neceffary to select any any particular pieces for praise or cenfure . They have COWLEY . 63.
... seems to have been greatesft in the fa- miliar and the feftive . The next clafs of his poems is called The Miftrefs , of which it is not neceffary to select any any particular pieces for praise or cenfure . They have COWLEY . 63.
Page 73
... seems to have been carried , by a kind of deftiny , to the light and the familiar , or to conceits which require still more ignoble epithets . A flaughter in the Red Sea new dies the waters ñame ; and England , during the Civil War ...
... seems to have been carried , by a kind of deftiny , to the light and the familiar , or to conceits which require still more ignoble epithets . A flaughter in the Red Sea new dies the waters ñame ; and England , during the Civil War ...
Page 107
... seems to have given him his first hold of the publick attention ; for Waller remarked , " that he broke out like the Irish rebellion three score thousand strong when nobody was aware , or in the leaft fufpected it ; " an observation ...
... seems to have given him his first hold of the publick attention ; for Waller remarked , " that he broke out like the Irish rebellion three score thousand strong when nobody was aware , or in the leaft fufpected it ; " an observation ...
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