The lives of the English poets: in 2 vol, Volume 1Tauchnitz, 1858 - 402 pagina's |
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Pagina 1
... 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 con- dition Dr. Sprat ...
... 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 con- dition Dr. Sprat ...
Pagina 2
... 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 ...
Pagina 5
... 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 people 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 people upon the place incline to that of union . The Scotch will moderate ...
Pagina 7
... thing to the honour of his country . Considering botany as necessary to a physician , he retired into Kent to gather plants ; and as the predominance of a favourite study affects all subordinate operations of the intellect , botany in ...
... thing to the honour of his country . Considering botany as necessary to a physician , he retired into Kent to gather plants ; and as the predominance of a favourite study affects all subordinate operations of the intellect , botany in ...
Pagina 9
... upon him , and represented to him the true delights of solitary studies , of temperate pleasures , and a moderate revenue below the malice and flatteries of fortune . " So differently are things seen ! and so differently are COWLEY . 9.
... upon him , and represented to him the true delights of solitary studies , of temperate pleasures , and a moderate revenue below the malice and flatteries of fortune . " So differently are things seen ! and so differently are COWLEY . 9.
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