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... numbers ; " and have given such early proofs , not only of powers of language , but of comprehension of things , as to more tardy minds seems scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , since a ...
... numbers ; " and have given such early proofs , not only of powers of language , but of comprehension of things , as to more tardy minds seems scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , since a ...
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... numbers in th ' unequal field , His men discouraged and himself expell'd ; Let him for succour sue from place to place , Torn from his subjects ' and his son's embrace . First let him see his friends in battle slain , And their untimely ...
... numbers in th ' unequal field , His men discouraged and himself expell'd ; Let him for succour sue from place to place , Torn from his subjects ' and his son's embrace . First let him see his friends in battle slain , And their untimely ...
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... numbers . At the same time were produced , from the same university , the two great poets , Cowley and Milton , of dissimilar genius , of opposite principles , but concurring in the cultivation of Latin poetry ; in which the English ...
... numbers . At the same time were produced , from the same university , the two great poets , Cowley and Milton , of dissimilar genius , of opposite principles , but concurring in the cultivation of Latin poetry ; in which the English ...
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... numbers , and to have supplied smoothness of transition and continuity of thought . It is urged by Dr. Sprat , that the irregularity of numbers is the very thing which makes that kind of poesy fit for all manner of subjects . But he ...
... numbers , and to have supplied smoothness of transition and continuity of thought . It is urged by Dr. Sprat , that the irregularity of numbers is the very thing which makes that kind of poesy fit for all manner of subjects . But he ...
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... numbers , but the same diction , to the gentle Anacreon and the tempestuous Pindar . His versification seems to have had very little of his care ; and if what he thinks be true , that his numbers are unmusical only when they are ill ...
... numbers , but the same diction , to the gentle Anacreon and the tempestuous Pindar . His versification seems to have had very little of his care ; and if what he thinks be true , that his numbers are unmusical only when they are ill ...
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