The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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Pàgina 1
... thing is diftinct- ly 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 ...
... thing is diftinct- ly 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 ...
Pàgina 2
... thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a commodious incident , though the book to which he prefixed his narrative contained its confutation . A memory admitting fome fome things , and rejecting others , an ...
... thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a commodious incident , though the book to which he prefixed his narrative contained its confutation . A memory admitting fome fome things , and rejecting others , an ...
Pàgina 3
... things , as to more tardy minds feem fcarcely credible . 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 feem fcarcely credible . 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
... things of real importance with real men and real women , and at that time did not much employ his thoughts upon phantoms of gallantry . Some of his letters to Mr. Bennet , after- wards Earl of Arlington , from April to December , in ...
... things of real importance with real men and real women , and at that time did not much employ his thoughts upon phantoms of gallantry . Some of his letters to Mr. Bennet , after- wards Earl of Arlington , from April to December , in ...
Pàgina 8
... thing 66 now in which we are vitally concerned ; I am one " of the laft hopers , and yet cannot now abftain from believing that an agreement will be made ; all " people upon the place incline to that of union . " The Scotch will ...
... thing 66 now in which we are vitally concerned ; I am one " of the laft hopers , and yet cannot now abftain from believing that an agreement will be made ; all " people upon the place incline to that of union . " The Scotch will ...
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