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... thing is distinctly known , but all is shewn confused and enlarged through the mist of panegyric . ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in the year one thousand six hundred and eighteen . His father was a grocer , whose condition Dr. Sprat conceals ...
... thing is distinctly known , but all is shewn confused and enlarged through the mist of panegyric . ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in the year one thousand six hundred and eighteen . His father was a grocer , whose condition Dr. Sprat conceals ...
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... 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 some 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 some things , and rejecting others , an ...
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... 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 not only written , but printed in his thirteenth year ' ; containing , with other ...
... 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 not only written , but printed in his thirteenth year ' ; containing , with other ...
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... things of real importance with real men and real women , and at that time did not much employ his thoughts upon phantoms of gal- lantry . 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 gal- lantry . Some of his letters to Mr. Bennet , after- wards Earl of Arlington , from April to December , in ...
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... thing now in which we are vitally concerned ; I am one of the last hopers , and yet cannot now abstain from believing that an agreement will be made ; all peo- ple upon the place incline to that of union . The Scotch will moderate ...
... thing now in which we are vitally concerned ; I am one of the last hopers , and yet cannot now abstain from believing that an agreement will be made ; all peo- ple upon the place incline to that of union . The Scotch will moderate ...
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