The lives of the English poets: in 2 vol, Volume 1Tauchnitz, 1858 - 402 pagina's |
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in 2 vol Samuel Johnson. JOHNSON'S LIVES . VOL . I. 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 have ...
in 2 vol Samuel Johnson. JOHNSON'S LIVES . VOL . I. 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 have ...
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... Cowley , Milton , and Pope , 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 seem scarcely credible . But of the learned ...
... Cowley , Milton , and Pope , 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 seem scarcely credible . But of the learned ...
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... Cowley's minority . In 1636 , he was removed to Cambridge , where he continued his studies with great intenseness : for he is said to have written , while he was yet a young student , the greater part of his " Davideis ; " a work , of ...
... Cowley's minority . In 1636 , he was removed to Cambridge , where he continued his studies with great intenseness : for he is said to have written , while he was yet a young student , the greater part of his " Davideis ; " a work , of ...
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... Cowley , we are told by Barnes , * who had means enough of information , that , whatever he may talk of his own inflammability , and the variety of characters by which his heart was divided , he in reality was in love but once , and ...
... Cowley , we are told by Barnes , * who had means enough of information , that , whatever he may talk of his own inflammability , and the variety of characters by which his heart was divided , he in reality was in love but once , and ...
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... Cowley of having consulted on this great occasion the Virgilian Lots , and to have given some credit to the answer of his oracle . Some years afterwards , " business , " says Sprat , " passed of course into other hands ; " and Cowley ...
... Cowley of having consulted on this great occasion the Virgilian Lots , and to have given some credit to the answer of his oracle . Some years afterwards , " business , " says Sprat , " passed of course into other hands ; " and Cowley ...
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