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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... wrote , " which " was never inferted in any collection of his works ; " but he altered the expreffion when the Lives were collected into volumes . The fatire was added to Cowley's works by the particular direction of Dr. Johnfon . N ...
... wrote , " which " was never inferted in any collection of his works ; " but he altered the expreffion when the Lives were collected into volumes . The fatire was added to Cowley's works by the particular direction of Dr. Johnfon . N ...
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... wrote a Song of Triumph . But this was a time of fuch general hope , that great numbers were inevitably difappointed ; and Cowley found his reward very tedioufly . delayed . He had been promifed , by both Charles the Firft and Second ...
... wrote a Song of Triumph . But this was a time of fuch general hope , that great numbers were inevitably difappointed ; and Cowley found his reward very tedioufly . delayed . He had been promifed , by both Charles the Firft and Second ...
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... wrote verfes , and very often fuch verfes as ftood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was fo imperfect , that they were only found to be verfes by counting the fyllables . If the father of criticism has ...
... wrote verfes , and very often fuch verfes as ftood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was fo imperfect , that they were only found to be verfes by counting the fyllables . If the father of criticism has ...
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... wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ; as Beings looking upon good and evil , impaffive and at leifure ; as Epicurean deities , making remarks on the actions of men , and the viciffitudes of life , without intereft ...
... wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ; as Beings looking upon good and evil , impaffive and at leifure ; as Epicurean deities , making remarks on the actions of men , and the viciffitudes of life , without intereft ...
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... in good men , : Virtue , our form's form , and our foul's foul is . this Of thoughts fo far - fetched , as to be not only un- expected , but unnatural , all their books are full . Το To a Lady , who wrote poefies for rings . 24 COWLEY .
... in good men , : Virtue , our form's form , and our foul's foul is . this Of thoughts fo far - fetched , as to be not only un- expected , but unnatural , all their books are full . Το To a Lady , who wrote poefies for rings . 24 COWLEY .
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