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... considered as merely ludicrous , or at most as an ostentatious display of scholarship ; but the manners of that time were so tinged with superstition , that I cannot but suspect Cowley of having consulted on this great occasion the ...
... considered as merely ludicrous , or at most as an ostentatious display of scholarship ; but the manners of that time were so tinged with superstition , that I cannot but suspect Cowley of having consulted on this great occasion the ...
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... considered only as a slender supplement . COWLEY , like other poets who have written with narrow views , and , instead of tracing intellectual pleasure to its natural sources in the minds of men , paid their court to temporary ...
... considered only as a slender supplement . COWLEY , like other poets who have written with narrow views , and , instead of tracing intellectual pleasure to its natural sources in the minds of men , paid their court to temporary ...
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... considered as wit which is at once natural and new , that which , though not obvious , is , upon its first production , acknowledged to be just ; if it be that which he that never found it , wonders how he missed ; to wit of this kind ...
... considered as wit which is at once natural and new , that which , though not obvious , is , upon its first production , acknowledged to be just ; if it be that which he that never found it , wonders how he missed ; to wit of this kind ...
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... considered as the verses of a lover , no man that has ever loved will much commend them . They are neither courtly nor pathetic , have neither gallantry nor fondness . His praises are too far sought , and too hyperbolical , either to ...
... considered as the verses of a lover , no man that has ever loved will much commend them . They are neither courtly nor pathetic , have neither gallantry nor fondness . His praises are too far sought , and too hyperbolical , either to ...
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... considered ; a species of composition , which Cowley thinks Pancirolus might have counted in his list of the lost inventions of antiquity , and which he has made a bold and vigorous attempt to recover . The purpose with which he has ...
... considered ; a species of composition , which Cowley thinks Pancirolus might have counted in his list of the lost inventions of antiquity , and which he has made a bold and vigorous attempt to recover . The purpose with which he has ...
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