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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius - Page 9
by Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846
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The works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 6

Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 pages
...his work, to which my narration can be considered only as a slender supplement. COWLEY, like other poets who have written with narrow views, and, instead...at different times takes different forms. About the begin, ning of the seventeenth century, appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphysical...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 466 pages
...his work, to which my narration can be considered only as a slender supplement. Cowley, like other poets who have written with narrow views, and, instead...pleasures in the minds of men, paid their court to * Now in the possession qf Mr Clark, alderman of London. temporary prejudices, has been at one time...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 470 pages
...his work, to which my narration can be considered only as a slender supplement. Cowley, like other poets who have written with narrow views, and, instead...pleasures in the minds of men, paid their court to * !sW in the possession of Mr Clark, alderman of London. temporary prejudices, has been at one time...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1821 - 502 pages
...his work, to which my narration can be considered only as a slender supplement, COWLEY, like other poets who have written with narrow views, and, instead...too much praised, and too much neglected at another. * Now in the possession of Mr. Clarke, alderman of London. Wit, like all other things subject by their...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

British poets - 1822 - 306 pages
...his work, to which my narration can be considered only as a slender supplement. Cowley, like other poets who have written with narrow views, and, instead...different forms. About the beginning of the seventeenth century, appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets; of whom, in a criticism...
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The British poets, including translations, Volume 13

British poets - 1822 - 348 pages
...his work, to which my narration can be considered only as a slender supplement. Cowley, like other poets who have written with narrow views, and, instead...too much praised, and too much neglected at another. to the choice of man, has its changes and fashions, and at different times takes different forms. About...
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The works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 6

Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 484 pages
...Chamberlain of London ; and has every year since been unanimously re-elected. N. COWLEY, like other poets who have written with narrow views, and, instead...different forms. About the beginning of the seventeenth century, appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets ; of whom, in a criticism...
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The works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 9

Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 484 pages
...his work, to which my narration can be considered only as a slender supplement. COWLEY, like other poets who have written with narrow views, and, instead...to the choice of man, has its changes and fashions, * Now in the possession of Mr. Clarke, alderman of London. and at different times takes different forms....
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Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ...

George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...representations to be just, and the learned see that they are complete. LIFE OF COWLEY. Cowley, like other poets who have written with narrow views, and, instead...different forms. About the beginning of the seventeenth century, appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets : of whom, in a criticism...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay, Volume 3

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 pages
...his work, to which my narration can be considered only as a slender supplement. Cowley, like other poets who have written with narrow views, and, instead...different forms. About the beginning of the seventeenth century, appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets ; of whom, in a criticism...
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