The lives of the most eminent English poets, with critical observations on their works, Volum 1G. Walker, J. Akerman, E. Edwards, W. Robinson and Sons, Liverpool, E. Thomson, Manchester, J. Noble, Hull, J. Wilson, Berwick, W. Whyte and Company, Edinburgh, and R. Griffin and Company, Glasgow, 1820 |
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... Steevens and other friends ; and great assistance has been given me by Mr. Spence's Collections , of which I consider the communication as a favour worthy of public acknowledgement . COWLEY . THE life of Cowley , notwithstanding the penury.
... Steevens and other friends ; and great assistance has been given me by Mr. Spence's Collections , of which I consider the communication as a favour worthy of public acknowledgement . COWLEY . THE life of Cowley , notwithstanding the penury.
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... given the character , not the life , of Cowley ; for he writes with so little detail , that scarcely any thing is dis- tinctly known , but all is shewn confused and en- larged through the mist of panegyric . ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in ...
... given the character , not the life , of Cowley ; for he writes with so little detail , that scarcely any thing is dis- tinctly known , but all is shewn confused and en- larged through the mist of panegyric . ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in ...
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... given such early proofs , not only of powers of lan- guage , but of comprehension of things , as to more tardy minds seem scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , since a volume of his poems was ...
... given such early proofs , not only of powers of lan- guage , but of comprehension of things , as to more tardy minds seem scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , since a volume of his poems was ...
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... given some credit to the answer of his oracle . 66 Some years afterwards , " business , " says Sprat , passed of course into other hands ; " and Cowley , being no longer useful at Paris , was in 1656 sent back into England , that ...
... given some credit to the answer of his oracle . 66 Some years afterwards , " business , " says Sprat , passed of course into other hands ; " and Cowley , being no longer useful at Paris , was in 1656 sent back into England , that ...
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... given by Dr Birch , he appears busy among the experimental philosophers with the title of Dr Cowley . There is no reason for supposing that he ever at- tempted practice : but his preparatory studies have contributed something to the ...
... given by Dr Birch , he appears busy among the experimental philosophers with the title of Dr Cowley . There is no reason for supposing that he ever at- tempted practice : but his preparatory studies have contributed something to the ...
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