The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... known , but all is shewn confused and enlarged through the mist of panegyric . ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in the year 1618. His father was a grocer , whose condition dr . Sprat conceals under the general appellation of a citizen ; and ...
... known , but all is shewn confused and enlarged through the mist of panegyric . ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in the year 1618. His father was a grocer , whose condition dr . Sprat conceals under the general appellation of a citizen ; and ...
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... known that the business of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetoric . One passage , however , seems not unworthy of some no- tice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agitation , " The Scotch treaty , " says he , is ...
... known that the business of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetoric . One passage , however , seems not unworthy of some no- tice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agitation , " The Scotch treaty , " says he , is ...
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... known ; I must therefore recom- mend the perusal of his work , to which my narration can be considered only as a slender supplement . COWLEY , like other poets who have written with nar- row views , and , instead of tracing intellectual ...
... known ; I must therefore recom- mend the perusal of his work , to which my narration can be considered only as a slender supplement . COWLEY , like other poets who have written with nar- row views , and , instead of tracing intellectual ...
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... known formality : But all pains eminently lie in thee . COWLEY . They were not always strictly curious , whether the opi- nions from which they drew their illustrations were true ; it was enough that they were popular . Bacon remarks ...
... known formality : But all pains eminently lie in thee . COWLEY . They were not always strictly curious , whether the opi- nions from which they drew their illustrations were true ; it was enough that they were popular . Bacon remarks ...
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... known ; Donne's is as follows : Thou seest me here at midnight , now all rest ; Time's dead low - water ; when all minds divest To - morrow's business ; when the labourers have Such rest in bed , that their last church - yard grave ...
... known ; Donne's is as follows : Thou seest me here at midnight , now all rest ; Time's dead low - water ; when all minds divest To - morrow's business ; when the labourers have Such rest in bed , that their last church - yard grave ...
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