The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... seem to have been ambitious ; and Naufragium Joculare , " a comedy written in Latin , but without due attention to the ... seems to be now universally neglected . At the beginning of the civil war , as the prince passed through Cambridge ...
... seem to have been ambitious ; and Naufragium Joculare , " a comedy written in Latin , but without due attention to the ... seems to be now universally neglected . At the beginning of the civil war , as the prince passed through Cambridge ...
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... seems as reasonable to appear the champion as the poet of an " airy nothing , " and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley might have learned , from his master Pindar , to call " the dream of a shadow . " It is surely not difficult , in ...
... seems as reasonable to appear the champion as the poet of an " airy nothing , " and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley might have learned , from his master Pindar , to call " the dream of a shadow . " It is surely not difficult , in ...
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... seems to have inserted something suppressed in subsequent editions , which was interpreted to denote some relaxation ... seem to have lessened his reputation . His wish for retirement we can easily believe to be undissembled : -a man ...
... seems to have inserted something suppressed in subsequent editions , which was interpreted to denote some relaxation ... seem to have lessened his reputation . His wish for retirement we can easily believe to be undissembled : -a man ...
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... seems to imply something encomiastic , there has been no appearance . There is a discourse concerning his govern- ment , indeed , with verses intermixed , but such as certainly gained its author no friends among the abettors of usurpa ...
... seems to imply something encomiastic , there has been no appearance . There is a discourse concerning his govern- ment , indeed , with verses intermixed , but such as certainly gained its author no friends among the abettors of usurpa ...
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... seems to have excited more contempt than pity . These unlucky incidents are brought , maliciously enough , together , in some ștanzas , written about that time , on the choice of a laureat ; a mode of satire , by which , since it was ...
... seems to have excited more contempt than pity . These unlucky incidents are brought , maliciously enough , together , in some ștanzas , written about that time , on the choice of a laureat ; a mode of satire , by which , since it was ...
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