The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2Peter Hill, 1815 |
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... Lord Hastings , composed with great ambition of such conceits as , notwithstanding the reformation begun by Waller and Denham , the example of Cowley still kept in reputation . Lord Hastings died of the small - pox ; and his poet has ...
... Lord Hastings , composed with great ambition of such conceits as , notwithstanding the reformation begun by Waller and Denham , the example of Cowley still kept in reputation . Lord Hastings died of the small - pox ; and his poet has ...
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... Lord Protector ; which , compared with the verses of Sprat and Wal- ler on the same occasion , were sufficient to raise great expectations of the rising poet . WHEN the King was restored , Dryden , like the other panegyrists of ...
... Lord Protector ; which , compared with the verses of Sprat and Wal- ler on the same occasion , were sufficient to raise great expectations of the rising poet . WHEN the King was restored , Dryden , like the other panegyrists of ...
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... Lord Mul- grave , it was necessary to introduce them by a pre- face ; and Dryden , who on such occasions was regu- larly summoned , prefixed a discourse upon translation , which was then struggling for the liberty that it now enjoys ...
... Lord Mul- grave , it was necessary to introduce them by a pre- face ; and Dryden , who on such occasions was regu- larly summoned , prefixed a discourse upon translation , which was then struggling for the liberty that it now enjoys ...
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... Lord Shaftesbury's escape from a prosecution , by the ignoramus of a grand jury of Londoners . In both poems he maintains the same principles , and saw them both attacked by the same antagonist . Elkanah Settle , who had answered ...
... Lord Shaftesbury's escape from a prosecution , by the ignoramus of a grand jury of Londoners . In both poems he maintains the same principles , and saw them both attacked by the same antagonist . Elkanah Settle , who had answered ...
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... Lord Mayor and Aldermen to be interdicted the sight of The London Cuckolds . This is the general strain , and therefore I shall be easily excused the la- bour of more transcription . You hill on hopi BROWN does not wholly forget past ...
... Lord Mayor and Aldermen to be interdicted the sight of The London Cuckolds . This is the general strain , and therefore I shall be easily excused the la- bour of more transcription . You hill on hopi BROWN does not wholly forget past ...
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