The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their WorksG. Clark and son, 1847 - 644 pàgines |
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... thing is distinctly known , but all is shewn , confused and enlarged , through the mist of penegyrick . ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in the year 1618. His father was a grocer , whose condition Dr. Sprat conceals under the general ap ...
... thing is distinctly known , but all is shewn , confused and enlarged , through the mist of penegyrick . ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in the year 1618. His father was a grocer , whose condition Dr. Sprat conceals under the general ap ...
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... 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 some things , and rejecting others , an ...
... 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 some things , and rejecting others , an ...
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... thing now in which we are vitally concerned : am one of the last hopers , and yet can- not 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 : am one of the last hopers , and yet can- not now abstain from believing that an agreement will be made ; all people upon the place incline to that of union . The Scotch will moderate ...
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... things subject by their nature to the choice of man , has its changes and fashions , and at different times takes dif ... thing ; they neither copied nature nor life ; neither painted the forms of matter , nor represented the operations ...
... things subject by their nature to the choice of man , has its changes and fashions , and at different times takes dif ... thing ; they neither copied nature nor life ; neither painted the forms of matter , nor represented the operations ...
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... things then from their end we happy call , ' Tis hope is the most hopeless thing of all . Hope , thou bold taster of delight , Who , whilst thou should'st but taste , devour'st it quite ! Thou bring'st us an estate , but leav'st up poor ...
... things then from their end we happy call , ' Tis hope is the most hopeless thing of all . Hope , thou bold taster of delight , Who , whilst thou should'st but taste , devour'st it quite ! Thou bring'st us an estate , but leav'st up poor ...
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