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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... thing is diftinctly 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 ...
... thing is diftinctly 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 ...
Pàgina 2
... thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a commodious inci- dent , though the book to which he prefixed his narrative contained its confutation . A memory admitting fome things , and rejecting others , an in ...
... thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a commodious inci- dent , though the book to which he prefixed his narrative contained its confutation . A memory admitting fome things , and rejecting others , an in ...
Pàgina 3
... things , as to more tardy minds feems fcarcely cre- dible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , fince a volume of his poems was not only written but printed in his thirteenth year * ; containing , with other ...
... things , as to more tardy minds feems fcarcely cre- dible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , fince a volume of his poems was not only written but printed in his thirteenth year * ; containing , with other ...
Pàgina 7
... thing now in which we are vitally concerned ; I am one of the last hopers , and yet cannot now " abstain from believing , that an agreement will " be made all people upon the place incline to " that of union . The Scotch will moderate ...
... thing now in which we are vitally concerned ; I am one of the last hopers , and yet cannot now " abstain from believing , that an agreement will " be made all people upon the place incline to " that of union . The Scotch will moderate ...
Pàgina 8
... thing to that purpose . " This expreffion from a fecretary of the prefent time , would confidered as merely ludicrous , or at moft as an oftentatious difplay of fcholarship ; but the manners of that time were fo tinged with fuperftition ...
... thing to that purpose . " This expreffion from a fecretary of the prefent time , would confidered as merely ludicrous , or at moft as an oftentatious difplay of fcholarship ; but the manners of that time were fo tinged with fuperftition ...
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