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... , - 699 Gay , - 378 Langhorne , - 700 Grenville , ( Lord Lansdowne ) - 385 Johnson , - 701 Yalden , - 391 W. Whitehead , --703 Tickell , - 394 Jenyns , 78420 - - 706 1 COWLEY . THE Life of Cowley , notwithstanding the.
... , - 699 Gay , - 378 Langhorne , - 700 Grenville , ( Lord Lansdowne ) - 385 Johnson , - 701 Yalden , - 391 W. Whitehead , --703 Tickell , - 394 Jenyns , 78420 - - 706 1 COWLEY . THE Life of Cowley , notwithstanding the.
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Samuel Johnson. COWLEY . THE Life of Cowley , notwithstanding the penury of English biography , has been written by Dr. Sprat , an author whose pregnancy of imagination and elegance of language has deservedly set him high in the ranks of ...
Samuel Johnson. COWLEY . THE Life of Cowley , notwithstanding the penury of English biography , has been written by Dr. Sprat , an author whose pregnancy of imagination and elegance of language has deservedly set him high in the ranks of ...
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... Cowley , Milton , and Pepe , might be said " to " lisp in numbers ; " and have given such early proofs , not only of powers of language , but of comprehension of things , as to more tardy minds seems scarcely credible . But of the ...
... Cowley , Milton , and Pepe , might be said " to " lisp in numbers ; " and have given such early proofs , not only of powers of language , but of comprehension of things , as to more tardy minds seems scarcely credible . But of the ...
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... Cowley says was neither written nor acted , but roughdrawn by him , and repeated by the scholars . That this comedy was printed during his absence from his country , he appears to have considered as injurious to his reputation ; though ...
... Cowley says was neither written nor acted , but roughdrawn by him , and repeated by the scholars . That this comedy was printed during his absence from his country , he appears to have considered as injurious to his reputation ; though ...
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