The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volumen 6F.C. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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... styles himself the melancholy Cowley . This met with the usual fortune of complaints , and seems to have ex- cited more contempt than pity . These unlucky incidents are brought , maliciously enough , together in some stanzas , written ...
... styles himself the melancholy Cowley . This met with the usual fortune of complaints , and seems to have ex- cited more contempt than pity . These unlucky incidents are brought , maliciously enough , together in some stanzas , written ...
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... style only in his lines upon Hobson the Carrier . Cowley adopted it , and excelled his predecessors , having as much sentiment and more musick . Suckling neither improved versification , nor abounded in conceits . The fashionable style ...
... style only in his lines upon Hobson the Carrier . Cowley adopted it , and excelled his predecessors , having as much sentiment and more musick . Suckling neither improved versification , nor abounded in conceits . The fashionable style ...
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... style and sentiments of the me- taphysical poets , it is now proper to examine particu- larly the works of Cowley , who was almost the last of that race , and undoubtedly the best . His Miscellanies contain a collection of short com ...
... style and sentiments of the me- taphysical poets , it is now proper to examine particu- larly the works of Cowley , who was almost the last of that race , and undoubtedly the best . His Miscellanies contain a collection of short com ...
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... style the Learned . These little pieces will be found more finished in their kind than any other of Cowley's works . The diction shews nothing of the mould of time , and the sentiments are at no great distance from our present habitudes ...
... style the Learned . These little pieces will be found more finished in their kind than any other of Cowley's works . The diction shews nothing of the mould of time , and the sentiments are at no great distance from our present habitudes ...
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... style ! Even those who cannot perhaps find in the Isthmian or Nemæan songs what Antiquity has disposed them to expect , will at least see that they are ill - represented by such puny poetry ; and all will determine that if this be the ...
... style ! Even those who cannot perhaps find in the Isthmian or Nemæan songs what Antiquity has disposed them to expect , will at least see that they are ill - represented by such puny poetry ; and all will determine that if this be the ...
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