Cowley, Denham, MiltonAlexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 |
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... thoughts of the ancients in their language ; Cowley , without much loss of purity or elegance , accommodates ... thought proper , fitted his old comedy of The Guardian for the stage , he produced it under the title of The Cutter ...
... thoughts of the ancients in their language ; Cowley , without much loss of purity or elegance , accommodates ... thought proper , fitted his old comedy of The Guardian for the stage , he produced it under the title of The Cutter ...
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... thought , a rebuke , Unless he had done some notable folly ; Writ verses unjustly in praise of Sam Tuke , Or printed his pitiful Melancholy . His vehement desire of retirement now came again upon him . " Not finding , " says . the ...
... thought , a rebuke , Unless he had done some notable folly ; Writ verses unjustly in praise of Sam Tuke , Or printed his pitiful Melancholy . His vehement desire of retirement now came again upon him . " Not finding , " says . the ...
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... thought , but was never before so well expressed , " they certainly never attained , nor ever sought it ; for they endeavoured to be singular in their thoughts , and were careless of their diction . But Pope's account of wit is ...
... thought , but was never before so well expressed , " they certainly never attained , nor ever sought it ; for they endeavoured to be singular in their thoughts , and were careless of their diction . But Pope's account of wit is ...
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... thought , which at once fills the whole mind , and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment , and the second rational admiration . Sublimity is produced by aggregation , and littleness by dispersion . Great thoughts are always ...
... thought , which at once fills the whole mind , and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment , and the second rational admiration . Sublimity is produced by aggregation , and littleness by dispersion . Great thoughts are always ...
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... thoughts , but they are not well wrought . His elegy on sir Henry Wotton is vigorous and happy ; the series of ... thought sufficiently at ease that could attend to such minuteness of physiology . But the power of Cowley is not so ...
... thoughts , but they are not well wrought . His elegy on sir Henry Wotton is vigorous and happy ; the series of ... thought sufficiently at ease that could attend to such minuteness of physiology . But the power of Cowley is not so ...
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