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... excellence is truth : he that professes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a real lover , and Laura doubtless deserved his tenderness . Of Cowley , we are told by Barnes , * who had means enough of information , that , whatever ...
... excellence is truth : he that professes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a real lover , and Laura doubtless deserved his tenderness . Of Cowley , we are told by Barnes , * who had means enough of information , that , whatever ...
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... excellence . For the rejection of this play it is difficult now to find the reason : it cer- tainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of disaffection he exculpates ...
... excellence . For the rejection of this play it is difficult now to find the reason : it cer- tainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of disaffection he exculpates ...
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... excellence than that in which Cowley condemns exuberance of wit : - Yet ' tis not to adorn and gild each part , Fotora That shows more cost than art . Jewels at nose and lips but ill appear ; Rather than all things wit , let none be ...
... excellence than that in which Cowley condemns exuberance of wit : - Yet ' tis not to adorn and gild each part , Fotora That shows more cost than art . Jewels at nose and lips but ill appear ; Rather than all things wit , let none be ...
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... excellence . Clarendon represents him as having taken a flight beyond all that went before him ; and Milton is said to have declared , that the three greatest English poets were Spenser , Shakspeare , and Cowley . His manner he had in ...
... excellence . Clarendon represents him as having taken a flight beyond all that went before him ; and Milton is said to have declared , that the three greatest English poets were Spenser , Shakspeare , and Cowley . His manner he had in ...
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... excellence of this kind is merely fortuitous : he sinks willingly down to his general carelessness , and avoids with very little care either meanness or asperity . His contractions are often rugged and harsh : - One flings a mountain ...
... excellence of this kind is merely fortuitous : he sinks willingly down to his general carelessness , and avoids with very little care either meanness or asperity . His contractions are often rugged and harsh : - One flings a mountain ...
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