...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. The metaphysical poets were men of learning, and to shew j their learning was their whole endeavour:...

...account of the phenomenon. Johnson's history of the matter is obviously insufficient. " Wit," says he, " like all other things subject by their nature to the...different forms. About the beginning of the seventeenth century appeared a race of 1 'Essay on the Human Under- * Nos. 53 — 63. •tanking,' chapter zi 2,...

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...have written with narrow views, and, instead of tracing intellectual pleasures in the mind of man, paid their court to temporary prejudices, has been...too much praised, and too much neglected at another. 2. Wit, like all other things subject by their nature to the 5 choice of man, has its changes and fashions,...

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