The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... published Histrio- mastix , a huge volume , in which stage - plays were censured . The outrages and crimes of the puritans brought after- wards their whole system of doctrine into disrepute ; and , from the restoration , the poets and ...
... published Histrio- mastix , a huge volume , in which stage - plays were censured . The outrages and crimes of the puritans brought after- wards their whole system of doctrine into disrepute ; and , from the restoration , the poets and ...
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... published by men with whom he might be supposed willing to associate ; and though he lived many years after the publication of his miscellaneous poems , yet he added nothing to them , but lived on in liter- ary indolence ; engaged in no ...
... published by men with whom he might be supposed willing to associate ; and though he lived many years after the publication of his miscellaneous poems , yet he added nothing to them , but lived on in liter- ary indolence ; engaged in no ...
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... published A paraphrase on the book of Job , and other parts of the scripture . This performance Dryden , who pursued him with great malignity , lived long enough to ridicule in a prologue . The wits easily confederated against him , as ...
... published A paraphrase on the book of Job , and other parts of the scripture . This performance Dryden , who pursued him with great malignity , lived long enough to ridicule in a prologue . The wits easily confederated against him , as ...
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... published Eliza , in ten books . I am afraid that the world was now weary of contending about Blackmore's heroes ; for I do not remember that by any author , serious or co- mical , I have found Eliza either praised or blamed . She ...
... published Eliza , in ten books . I am afraid that the world was now weary of contending about Blackmore's heroes ; for I do not remember that by any author , serious or co- mical , I have found Eliza either praised or blamed . She ...
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... published three times a week the Lay Monastery , founded on the supposition that some literary men , whose charac- ters are described , had retired to a house in the country to enjoy philosophical leisure , and resolved to instruct the ...
... published three times a week the Lay Monastery , founded on the supposition that some literary men , whose charac- ters are described , had retired to a house in the country to enjoy philosophical leisure , and resolved to instruct the ...
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