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Page 12
... known to have written , seems to have copied , though with the inferiority of an imitator . The Holy Book like the eighth sphere doth shine With thousand lights of truth divine , So numberless the stars , that to our eye It makes all ...
... known to have written , seems to have copied , though with the inferiority of an imitator . The Holy Book like the eighth sphere doth shine With thousand lights of truth divine , So numberless the stars , that to our eye It makes all ...
Page 15
... known measure of the lines , and uniform struc- ture of the stanzas , by which the voice is regu- lated , and the memory relieved . If the Pindaric style be , what Cowley thinks it , " the highest and noblest kind of writing in verse ...
... known measure of the lines , and uniform struc- ture of the stanzas , by which the voice is regu- lated , and the memory relieved . If the Pindaric style be , what Cowley thinks it , " the highest and noblest kind of writing in verse ...
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... known but what is related of him by Wood , or by himself . He was born at Dublin in 1615 ; * the only son of Sir John Denham , of Little Horseley , in Essex , then chief baron of the Exchequer in Ire- land , and of Eleanor , daugh of ...
... known but what is related of him by Wood , or by himself . He was born at Dublin in 1615 ; * the only son of Sir John Denham , of Little Horseley , in Essex , then chief baron of the Exchequer in Ire- land , and of Eleanor , daugh of ...
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... known . truth II His poem on the death of Cowley was his last , and , among his shorter works , his best perform- Longrit ein bis vile practice obscured the and deformed parts of the by a perusal of our most be some the ancient authors ...
... known . truth II His poem on the death of Cowley was his last , and , among his shorter works , his best perform- Longrit ein bis vile practice obscured the and deformed parts of the by a perusal of our most be some the ancient authors ...
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... known that they were said non tam de se , quam supra sera sdt or „ gnivæd . " 69a 979w He began now to grow of the c e country e country , and had some purpose taking chambers in the Inns of Court , when the death of his the for which ...
... known that they were said non tam de se , quam supra sera sdt or „ gnivæd . " 69a 979w He began now to grow of the c e country e country , and had some purpose taking chambers in the Inns of Court , when the death of his the for which ...
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