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... works ; " but he altered the expression when the lives were col lected into volumes . The satire was added to Cowley's works by the desire of Johnson . About the time when Oxford was surrendered to the parliament 2 COWLEY .
... works ; " but he altered the expression when the lives were col lected into volumes . The satire was added to Cowley's works by the desire of Johnson . About the time when Oxford was surrendered to the parliament 2 COWLEY .
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... expression , from a secretary of the present time , would be 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 ...
... expression , from a secretary of the present time , would be 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 ...
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... expressions , and to leave curiosity often unsatisfied . What he did not tell cannot , however , now be known ; I must therefore recommend the perusal of his work , to which my narration can be considered only as a slender supplement ...
... expressions , and to leave curiosity often unsatisfied . What he did not tell cannot , however , now be known ; I must therefore recommend the perusal of his work , to which my narration can be considered only as a slender supplement ...
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... expression , but useful to those who know their value ; and such as , when they are expanded to perspicuity , and polished to elegance , may give lustre to works which have more propriety though less copiousness of sentiment . This kind ...
... expression , but useful to those who know their value ; and such as , when they are expanded to perspicuity , and polished to elegance , may give lustre to works which have more propriety though less copiousness of sentiment . This kind ...
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... expressions were sometimes grossly absurd , and such as no figures or licence can reconcile to the understanding . A lover neither dead nor alive : Then down I laid my head Down on cold earth ; and for a while was dead , And my freed ...
... expressions were sometimes grossly absurd , and such as no figures or licence can reconcile to the understanding . A lover neither dead nor alive : Then down I laid my head Down on cold earth ; and for a while was dead , And my freed ...
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