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Pagina xxvii
... but an awkward return . ' John- son did not own ' to whom he was obliged ; so that the acknowledge- ment is unappropriated to his Grace . ' Boswell's Johnson , iv . 63 . COWLEY ' HE Life of Cowley , notwithstanding the penury.
... but an awkward return . ' John- son did not own ' to whom he was obliged ; so that the acknowledge- ment is unappropriated to his Grace . ' Boswell's Johnson , iv . 63 . COWLEY ' HE Life of Cowley , notwithstanding the penury.
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Samuel Johnson George Birkbeck Norman Hill. COWLEY ' HE Life of Cowley , notwithstanding the penury of English 1 THE biography 2 , has been written by Dr. Sprat , an author whose pregnancy of imagination and elegance of language have ...
Samuel Johnson George Birkbeck Norman Hill. COWLEY ' HE Life of Cowley , notwithstanding the penury of English 1 THE biography 2 , has been written by Dr. Sprat , an author whose pregnancy of imagination and elegance of language have ...
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... Cowley . ' Essays of Elia , p . 206 . Cowley , according to Dryden , looked upon Chaucer as a dry old- fashioned wit , not worth reviving . Having read him over at the Earl of Leicester's request , he declared he had no taste of him ...
... Cowley . ' Essays of Elia , p . 206 . Cowley , according to Dryden , looked upon Chaucer as a dry old- fashioned wit , not worth reviving . Having read him over at the Earl of Leicester's request , he declared he had no taste of him ...
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... Cowley , Milton , and Pope might 6 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 Pope might 6 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 of Pyramus and Thisbe : - ' I hope a pardon may easily be gotten for the errors of ten years old . My Constantia and Philetus confesseth me two years older when I writ it . ' Post , MILTON , 181 ; POPE , 313 . 3 Hurd's Cowley ...
... Cowley says of Pyramus and Thisbe : - ' I hope a pardon may easily be gotten for the errors of ten years old . My Constantia and Philetus confesseth me two years older when I writ it . ' Post , MILTON , 181 ; POPE , 313 . 3 Hurd's Cowley ...
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