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" COWLEY, like other poets who have written with narrow views, and, instead of tracing intellectual pleasure to its natural sources in the mind of man, paid their court to temporary prejudices, has been at one time too much praised, and too much neglected... "
Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets
by Samuel Johnson - 1779
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The Annual Register, Volume 22

1796 - 690 pages
...have written with- narrow views, and inftead of tracing intellectual pleafure to its natural (burces in the mind of man, paid their court to temporary...praifed, and too much neglected at another. Wit, like other things fubjeS by their nature to the choice of man, has its changes and falhions, and at different...
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Annual Register, Volume 22

Edmund Burke - 1780 - 726 pages
...in future. €)f the Mnapbyßcal Poets. From Johnfon'i Life of Cowley. /ROWLEY, like other poets V^ who have written with narrow views, and inftead of...has been at one time too much praifed, and too much neglefted at another. Wit, like other things fubjeft by their nature to the choice of man, has its...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: Cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler ...

Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 494 pages
...therefore recommend the perufal of his work, to which . my narration can be confidered only as a fJen-? der fupplement. COWLEY, like other poets who have written...their nature to the choice of man, has its changes and faftrions, and at different times takes different forms. About the beginning of the feventeenth century...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: Cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler ...

Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 498 pages
...have written with narrow views, and, inftead of tracing intelle&ual pleafure to its natural y iburces in the mind of man, paid their court to temporary prejudices, has been atone time too much praifed, and too much negle&ed at another. Wit, like all other things fubjecl:...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The lives of the most eminent English poets

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 498 pages
...poets who have written with narrow views, and, inftead of tracing intellectual pleafures in the minds of man, paid their court to tempo•rary prejudices, has been at one time much praifed, ana too much neglected at another. Wit, like all other things fubject by their nature...
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The lives of the most eminent English poets

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...poets who have written with narrow views, and, inftead of tracing intellectual pleafures in the minds of man, paid their court to temporary prejudices, has been at one time much praifed, and too much neglected at another. Wit, like all other things fubject by their nature...
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The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for ...

1796 - 692 pages
...with any profpeft of fuccefs in future. or Of tbt Meiapbjjital Potts. From Johnfon'i Lift afCowley. COWLEY, like other poets who have written with narrow...has been at one time too much praifed, and too much negk'H.eJ at another. Wit, like other tilings fubjeft by their nature to the choice of man, has its...
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Lives

Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pages
...poets who have written with narrow views, and, instead of" tracing intellectual pleasures in the minds of man, paid their court to temporary prejudices, has been at one time too much praised, and too much. neglected at another. "Wit. like all other things subject by their nature to...
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The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, and ...

1801 - 860 pages
...mans, into the fame world as it -was Nature's, and as it was God's" { Cowley, like other poets who have paid their, court to. temporary prejudices, has been at one time. too, much pralfed, and too much neglecled at another. His Mifcellanies contain a collection of fhort cpmpooV...
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The works of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland. With prefaces ..., Volume 1

Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...poets who have written with narrow views, and, Instead of tracing intellectual pleasures in the minds of man, paid their court to temporary prejudices, has been at one time too much praised, and too much neglected at another. Wit, like all other things subject by their nature to the...
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