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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... known , but all is fhewn con- fufed and enlarged through the mift of panegyrick . ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in the one thousand fix hundred and eighteen . His fa- ther was a grocer , whofe condition Dr. Sprat con- ceals under the general ...
... known , but all is fhewn con- fufed and enlarged through the mift of panegyrick . ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in the one thousand fix hundred and eighteen . His fa- ther was a grocer , whofe condition Dr. Sprat con- ceals under the general ...
Pàgina 7
... known that the bufinels of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetorick . One paffage , however , feems not unworthy of fome notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agitation : 66 " The Scotch treaty , " fays he ...
... known that the bufinels of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetorick . One paffage , however , feems not unworthy of fome notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agitation : 66 " The Scotch treaty , " fays he ...
Pàgina 14
... known . He that miffes his end will never be as much pleafed as he that attains it , even when he can impute no part of his failure to himself ; and , when the end is to please the multitude , no man , perhaps , has a right , in things ...
... known . He that miffes his end will never be as much pleafed as he that attains it , even when he can impute no part of his failure to himself ; and , when the end is to please the multitude , no man , perhaps , has a right , in things ...
Pàgina 18
... known . I must therefore recommend the perufal of his work , to which my narration can be confidered only as a fiender fup- plement . COWLEY , like other poets who have writ- ten with narrow views , and , inftead of tracing in ...
... known . I must therefore recommend the perufal of his work , to which my narration can be confidered only as a fiender fup- plement . COWLEY , like other poets who have writ- ten with narrow views , and , inftead of tracing in ...
Pàgina 26
... known , The foil's all barren fand , or rocky stone . COWLEY . A Lover , burnt up by his affection , is compared to Egypt : The fate of Egypt I fuftain , And never feel the dew of rain From clouds which in the head appear ; But all my ...
... known , The foil's all barren fand , or rocky stone . COWLEY . A Lover , burnt up by his affection , is compared to Egypt : The fate of Egypt I fuftain , And never feel the dew of rain From clouds which in the head appear ; But all my ...
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