The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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... known , but all is fhewn confused and enlarged through the mift of panegyrick . • ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in the year one thousand fix hundred and eighteen . His father was a grocer , whofe condition Dr. Sprat conceals under the general ...
... known , but all is fhewn confused and enlarged through the mift of panegyrick . • ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in the year one thousand fix hundred and eighteen . His father was a grocer , whofe condition Dr. Sprat conceals under the general ...
Pàgina 7
... known that the bufinefs of a ftatesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhe- torick . One paffage , however , feems not unworthy of fome notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agi- ţation ; B 4 " The 66 " The Scotch treaty ...
... known that the bufinefs of a ftatesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhe- torick . One paffage , however , feems not unworthy of fome notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agi- ţation ; B 4 " The 66 " The Scotch treaty ...
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... 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 ...
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... known ; I must therefore recommend the perufal of his work , to which my narration can be confidered only as a flender fupplement . Now in the poffeffion of Mr. Clark , Alderman of Lon don . Dr. J.-Mr. Clark was , in 1798 , elected ...
... known ; I must therefore recommend the perufal of his work , to which my narration can be confidered only as a flender fupplement . Now in the poffeffion of Mr. Clark , Alderman of Lon don . Dr. J.-Mr. Clark was , in 1798 , elected ...
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... 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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