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... a funeral oration rather than a history: he. has given I the character, not the life,
of Cowley.;. for he writes with so little detail, that scarcely any thing is distinctly
known, but all is shewn confused and enlarged through the mist of panegyrick.
... a funeral oration rather than a history: he. has given I the character, not the life,
of Cowley.;. for he writes with so little detail, that scarcely any thing is distinctly
known, but all is shewn confused and enlarged through the mist of panegyrick.
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that, when they told Cowley. how little favour had been shewn him, he Received
the news of his ill success, not with so much firmness as might have been
expected from so great a man." What firmness they expected, or what weakness ...
that, when they told Cowley. how little favour had been shewn him, he Received
the news of his ill success, not with so much firmness as might have been
expected from so great a man." What firmness they expected, or what weakness ...
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So differently are things seen ! and so differently are they shewn ! But actions are
visible, though motives are secret. Cowley certainly retired ; first to Barn-elms,
and afterwards to Chertsey, in Surrey. He seems, however, to have lost part of his
...
So differently are things seen ! and so differently are they shewn ! But actions are
visible, though motives are secret. Cowley certainly retired ; first to Barn-elms,
and afterwards to Chertsey, in Surrey. He seems, however, to have lost part of his
...
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... for, gentle year, Although I fear There 's of this caution little need, Yet, gentle
year, take heed How thou dost make Such a mistake ; Such love I mean alone As
by thy cruel predecessors has been shewn : For, though I have too much cause
to ...
... for, gentle year, Although I fear There 's of this caution little need, Yet, gentle
year, take heed How thou dost make Such a mistake ; Such love I mean alone As
by thy cruel predecessors has been shewn : For, though I have too much cause
to ...
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The plan of the whole work is very imperfectly shewn by the third part. The
duration of an unfinished action cannot be known. Of characters either not yet
introduced, or shewn but upon few occasions, the full extent and the nice
discriminations ...
The plan of the whole work is very imperfectly shewn by the third part. The
duration of an unfinished action cannot be known. Of characters either not yet
introduced, or shewn but upon few occasions, the full extent and the nice
discriminations ...
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