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... excellence is truth : he that professes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a real lover , and Lau- ra doubtless deserved his tenderness . Of Cowley , we are told by Barnes , * who had means enough of information , that ...
... excellence is truth : he that professes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a real lover , and Lau- ra doubtless deserved his tenderness . Of Cowley , we are told by Barnes , * who had means enough of information , that ...
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... excellence no other poet has hitherto afforded . To choose the best among many good , is one of the most hazardous attemps of criticism . I know not whether Scaliger himself has persuaded many readers to join with him in his pre ...
... excellence no other poet has hitherto afforded . To choose the best among many good , is one of the most hazardous attemps of criticism . I know not whether Scaliger himself has persuaded many readers to join with him in his pre ...
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... excellence than that in which Cowley con- demns exuberance of wit : Yet ' tis not to adorn and gild each part , That shews more cost than art . Jewels at nose and lips but ill appear ; Rather than all things wit , let none be there ...
... excellence than that in which Cowley con- demns exuberance of wit : Yet ' tis not to adorn and gild each part , That shews more cost than art . Jewels at nose and lips but ill appear ; Rather than all things wit , let none be there ...
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Samuel Johnson. and such intellectual excellence as a mind not yet called forth to action can display . He knew how to distinguish , and how to commend , the qualities of his companion ; but , when he wishes to make us weep he forgets to ...
Samuel Johnson. and such intellectual excellence as a mind not yet called forth to action can display . He knew how to distinguish , and how to commend , the qualities of his companion ; but , when he wishes to make us weep he forgets to ...
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... excellence . Clarendon represents him as having ta - ` ken a flight beyond all that went before him ; and Mil- ton is said to have declared , that the three greatest English poets were Spenser , Shakspeare , and Cowley . His manner he ...
... excellence . Clarendon represents him as having ta - ` ken a flight beyond all that went before him ; and Mil- ton is said to have declared , that the three greatest English poets were Spenser , Shakspeare , and Cowley . His manner he ...
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