The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1C. Bathurst, 1783 |
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Pàgina 1
... known , but all is fhewn confused and enlarged through the mist of panegyrick . ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in the year one thousand fix hundred and eigh- teen . His father was a grocer , whofe con- dition VOL . I. B dition Dr. Sprat ...
... known , but all is fhewn confused and enlarged through the mist of panegyrick . ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in the year one thousand fix hundred and eigh- teen . His father was a grocer , whofe con- dition VOL . I. B dition Dr. Sprat ...
Pàgina 10
... known that the business of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetorick . One paffage , however , feems not unworthy of fome notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agitation ; " The Scotch treaty , " fays he ...
... known that the business of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetorick . One paffage , however , feems not unworthy of fome notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agitation ; " The Scotch treaty , " fays he ...
Pàgina 18
... known . He that miffes his end will never be as much pleased 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 pleased 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 ...
Pàgina 24
... how- ever now be known . I must therefore re- commend the perufal of his work , to which my narration can be confidered only as a flender fupplement . COW- COWLEY , like other poets who have written with narrow 24 COWL E Y.
... how- ever now be known . I must therefore re- commend the perufal of his work , to which my narration can be confidered only as a flender fupplement . COW- COWLEY , like other poets who have written with narrow 24 COWL E Y.
Pàgina 36
... as thofe ? Luft , the scorching dog ftar , here Rages with immoderate heat ; Whilft Pride , the rugged Northern Bear , In others makes the cold too great . And • And where these are temperate known , The foil's 36 COWLEY .
... as thofe ? Luft , the scorching dog ftar , here Rages with immoderate heat ; Whilft Pride , the rugged Northern Bear , In others makes the cold too great . And • And where these are temperate known , The foil's 36 COWLEY .
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