The lives of the English poetsLuke Hansard & Sons, 1810 |
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... known , but all is shewn confused and en- larged through the mist of panegyrick . ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in the year one thousand six hundred and eighteen . His father was a grocer , whose condition Dr. Sprat conceals under the general ...
... known , but all is shewn confused and en- larged through the mist of panegyrick . ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in the year one thousand six hundred and eighteen . His father was a grocer , whose condition Dr. Sprat conceals under the general ...
Strona 7
... known that the business of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhe- torick . One passage , however , seems not unworthy of some notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agitation ; " The " The Scotch treaty , " says ...
... known that the business of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhe- torick . One passage , however , seems not unworthy of some notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agitation ; " The " The Scotch treaty , " says ...
Strona 14
... known . He that misses his end will never be as much pleased as he that attains it , even when he can impute no part of his failure to himself ; and , when the end is to please the multitude , no man , perhaps , has a right , in things ...
... known . He that misses his end will never be as much pleased as he that attains it , even when he can impute no part of his failure to himself ; and , when the end is to please the multitude , no man , perhaps , has a right , in things ...
Strona 18
... known ; I must therefore recommend the perusal of his work , to which my narration can be considered only as a slender supplement . * Now in the possession of Mr. Clark , Alderman of London . Dr. J.-Mr. Clark was , in 1798 , elected to ...
... known ; I must therefore recommend the perusal of his work , to which my narration can be considered only as a slender supplement . * Now in the possession of Mr. Clark , Alderman of London . Dr. J.-Mr. Clark was , in 1798 , elected to ...
Strona 27
... known , The soil's all barren sand , or rocky stone . COWLEY . A Lover , burnt up by his affection , is compared to Egypt : The fate of Egypt I sustain , And never feel the dew of rain From clouds which in the head appear ; But all my ...
... known , The soil's all barren sand , or rocky stone . COWLEY . A Lover , burnt up by his affection , is compared to Egypt : The fate of Egypt I sustain , And never feel the dew of rain From clouds which in the head appear ; But all my ...
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