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Page 18
... never moved ; we are sometimes surprised , but never delighted , and find much to admire , but little to approve . Still however it is the work of Cowley , of a mind capacious by nature , and replenished by study . In the general review ...
... never moved ; we are sometimes surprised , but never delighted , and find much to admire , but little to approve . Still however it is the work of Cowley , of a mind capacious by nature , and replenished by study . In the general review ...
Page 19
... never strike with the sense His spear , the trunk was of a lofty tree , Of all this Cowley appears to have been without knowledge , or without care . He makes no selection of words , nor seeks any neatness of phrase : he has no ...
... never strike with the sense His spear , the trunk was of a lofty tree , Of all this Cowley appears to have been without knowledge , or without care . He makes no selection of words , nor seeks any neatness of phrase : he has no ...
Page 32
... never be derived . No him . man forgets his original trade ; the rights of na- tions , and of kings , sink into questions of gram- mar , if grammarians discuss them . Milton , when he undertook this answer , was weak of body and dim of ...
... never be derived . No him . man forgets his original trade ; the rights of na- tions , and of kings , sink into questions of gram- mar , if grammarians discuss them . Milton , when he undertook this answer , was weak of body and dim of ...
Page 38
... never happily flowed but from the Autum- nal Equinox to the Vernal ; and that whatever he attempted at other times was never to his satisfaction , though he courted his fancy never so much ; so that , in all the years he was about this ...
... never happily flowed but from the Autum- nal Equinox to the Vernal ; and that whatever he attempted at other times was never to his satisfaction , though he courted his fancy never so much ; so that , in all the years he was about this ...
Page 39
... never spared any as- These bursts of light , and involutions of dark - perity of reproach , or brutality of insolence . ness , these transient and involuntary excursions But the charge itself seems to be false ; for it and retrocessions ...
... never spared any as- These bursts of light , and involutions of dark - perity of reproach , or brutality of insolence . ness , these transient and involuntary excursions But the charge itself seems to be false ; for it and retrocessions ...
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