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... 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 condition Dr. Sprat conceals un- der the general appellation of a ...
... 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 condition Dr. Sprat conceals un- der the general appellation of a ...
Pagina 13
... shewn him , he received the news of his ill - success , not with so much firmness as might have been expect- ed from so great a man . " What firmness they expected , or what weakness Cowley discovered , cannot be known . He that misses ...
... shewn him , he received the news of his ill - success , not with so much firmness as might have been expect- ed from so great a man . " What firmness they expected , or what weakness Cowley discovered , cannot be known . He that misses ...
Pagina 14
... shewn ! but actions are visible , though motives are secret . Cowley certainly retired : first to Barn - elms , and afterwards to Chertsey , in Sur- He seems , however , to have lost part of his dread of the hum of men . He thought ...
... shewn ! but actions are visible , though motives are secret . Cowley certainly retired : first to Barn - elms , and afterwards to Chertsey , in Sur- He seems , however , to have lost part of his dread of the hum of men . He thought ...
Pagina 45
... shewn ; For , though I have too much cause to doubt it , I fain would try for once , if life can live without it . The reader of this will be inclined to cry out with Prior , Ye critics , say , How poor to this was Pindar's style ! Even ...
... shewn ; For , though I have too much cause to doubt it , I fain would try for once , if life can live without it . The reader of this will be inclined to cry out with Prior , Ye critics , say , How poor to this was Pindar's style ! Even ...
Pagina 52
... shewn by the third part . The duration of an unfinished action cannot be known . Of cha- racters either not yet introduced , or shewn but upon few occasions , the full extent and the nice discriminations cannot be ascertained . The ...
... shewn by the third part . The duration of an unfinished action cannot be known . Of cha- racters either not yet introduced , or shewn but upon few occasions , the full extent and the nice discriminations cannot be ascertained . The ...
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