The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1Nichols and Son, 1801 - 588 pàgines |
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... friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a hiftory : he has given the character , not the life of Cowley ; for , he writes with fo little detail , that fcarcely any thing is diftinctly known ...
... friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a hiftory : he has given the character , not the life of Cowley ; for , he writes with fo little detail , that fcarcely any thing is diftinctly known ...
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... friends in battle flain , And their untimely fate lament in vain : And when , at length , the cruel war fhall ceafe , On hard conditions may he buy his peace ; Nor let him then enjoy fupreme command , But fall untimely by fome hoftile ...
... friends in battle flain , And their untimely fate lament in vain : And when , at length , the cruel war fhall ceafe , On hard conditions may he buy his peace ; Nor let him then enjoy fupreme command , But fall untimely by fome hoftile ...
Pàgina 10
... friends ) , " he went into France again , having made a copy " of verfes on Oliver's death . " This is no favourable representation , yet even in this not much wrong can be difcovered . How far he complied with the men in power , is to ...
... friends ) , " he went into France again , having made a copy " of verfes on Oliver's death . " This is no favourable representation , yet even in this not much wrong can be difcovered . How far he complied with the men in power , is to ...
Pàgina 11
... friend , but by his friend's permiffion . Of the verfes on Oliver's death , in which Wood's narrative feems to imply fomething encomiaftick , B 6 there there has been no appearance . There is a difcourfe COWLEY . II.
... friend , but by his friend's permiffion . Of the verfes on Oliver's death , in which Wood's narrative feems to imply fomething encomiaftick , B 6 there there has been no appearance . There is a difcourfe COWLEY . II.
Pàgina 12
... friends among the abettors of ufurpation . A doctor of phyfick however he was made at Oxford , in December , 1657 and in the com- mencement of the Royal Society , of which an ac- count has been given by Dr. Birch , he appears bufy among ...
... friends among the abettors of ufurpation . A doctor of phyfick however he was made at Oxford , in December , 1657 and in the com- mencement of the Royal Society , of which an ac- count has been given by Dr. Birch , he appears bufy among ...
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