LivesA. Miller, 1800 - English poetry |
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... seems 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 poctical compositions , " The ...
... seems 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 poctical compositions , " The ...
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... seems to be now universally neglected . At the beginning of the civil war , as the Prince passed through Cambridge in his way to York , he was entertained with a representation of the " Guardian , " a comedy , which Cowley says was ...
... seems to be now universally neglected . At the beginning of the civil war , as the Prince passed through Cambridge in his way to York , he was entertained with a representation of the " Guardian , " a comedy , which Cowley says was ...
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... seems as reasonable to appear the champion as the poet of an " airy nothing , " and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley might have learned from his master Pindar to call the " dream of a shadow . " 1 It is surely not difficult , in ...
... seems as reasonable to appear the champion as the poet of an " airy nothing , " and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley might have learned from his master Pindar to call the " dream of a shadow . " 1 It is surely not difficult , in ...
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... seems to have inserted something , suppressed in subsequent editions , which was interpreted to denote some ... seem to have lessened his reputation . His wish for retirement we can easily believe to be undiffembled ; a man ...
... seems to have inserted something , suppressed in subsequent editions , which was interpreted to denote some ... seem to have lessened his reputation . His wish for retirement we can easily believe to be undiffembled ; a man ...
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... seems to imply something encomiastick , there has been no appearance . There is a discourse concerning his government , indeed , with verses intermixed , but such as certainly gained its author no friends among the abettors of ...
... seems to imply something encomiastick , there has been no appearance . There is a discourse concerning his government , indeed , with verses intermixed , but such as certainly gained its author no friends among the abettors of ...
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