The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1C. Bathurst, 1783 |
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Pàgina 1
... thing is diftinctly 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 ...
... thing is diftinctly 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 ...
Pàgina 3
... 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 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 things , and rejecting others , an ...
Pàgina 4
... things , as to more tardy minds feems 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 ; contain- ing , with other ...
... things , as to more tardy minds feems 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 ; contain- ing , with other ...
Pàgina 9
... fading as her beauty , and some- times in gems lafting as her virtues . At Paris , as fecretary to Lord Jermin , he was engaged in tranfacting things of real 1 importance with real men and real women , and impor- сот COWLEY . 9.
... fading as her beauty , and some- times in gems lafting as her virtues . At Paris , as fecretary to Lord Jermin , he was engaged in tranfacting things of real 1 importance with real men and real women , and impor- сот COWLEY . 9.
Pàgina 10
... things than words , contribute no otherwise to his repu- tation than as they fhew him to have been above the affectation ... thing now in which we are vitally " concerned ; I am one of the last hopers , " and yet cannot now abftain from ...
... things than words , contribute no otherwise to his repu- tation than as they fhew him to have been above the affectation ... thing now in which we are vitally " concerned ; I am one of the last hopers , " and yet cannot now abftain from ...
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