Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-DrydenClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... reason to think that Cowley promised little . It 28 does not appear that his compliance gained him confidence enough to be trusted without security , for the bond of his bail was never cancelled ; nor that it made him think himself ...
... reason to think that Cowley promised little . It 28 does not appear that his compliance gained him confidence enough to be trusted without security , for the bond of his bail was never cancelled ; nor that it made him think himself ...
Page 12
... reason for supposing that he ever attempted practice , but his preparatory studies have contributed something to the honour of his country . Considering botany as necessary to a physician , he retired into Kent to gather plants ; and as ...
... reason for supposing that he ever attempted practice , but his preparatory studies have contributed something to the honour of his country . Considering botany as necessary to a physician , he retired into Kent to gather plants ; and as ...
Page 14
... reason ; it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of disaffection he exculpates himself in his preface by observing how unlikely it is that , having followed the ...
... reason ; it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of disaffection he exculpates himself in his preface by observing how unlikely it is that , having followed the ...
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... reason , though he must always be thought a great poet , he is no longer esteemed a good writer ; and for ten impressions which his works have had in so many successive years , yet at present a hundred books are scarcely purchased once ...
... reason , though he must always be thought a great poet , he is no longer esteemed a good writer ; and for ten impressions which his works have had in so many successive years , yet at present a hundred books are scarcely purchased once ...
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... reason but fancy behind them , and produced combinations of confused magnificence that not only could not be credited , but could not be imagined . : Yet great labour directed by great abilities is never wholly 60 lost if they ...
... reason but fancy behind them , and produced combinations of confused magnificence that not only could not be credited , but could not be imagined . : Yet great labour directed by great abilities is never wholly 60 lost if they ...
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