The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2Peter Hill, 1815 |
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... true , and partly erroneous . FROM Westminster School , where he was instruct- ed as one of the King's scholars by Dr Busby , whom he long after continued to reverence , he was in 1650 elected to one of the Westminster scholarships at ...
... true , and partly erroneous . FROM Westminster School , where he was instruct- ed as one of the King's scholars by Dr Busby , whom he long after continued to reverence , he was in 1650 elected to one of the Westminster scholarships at ...
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... true , was not this Huffcap once the Indian Emperor ? and at another time did he not call himself Maximin ? Was not Lyndaraxa once called Almeria ? I mean under Montezuma the Indian Ems- peror . I protest and vow they are either the ...
... true , was not this Huffcap once the Indian Emperor ? and at another time did he not call himself Maximin ? Was not Lyndaraxa once called Almeria ? I mean under Montezuma the Indian Ems- peror . I protest and vow they are either the ...
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... true ; but give me leave to tell you that you are no hero . ' KING Arthur ( 1691 ) is another opera . It was the last work that Dryden performed for King Charles , who did not live to see it exhibited , and it does not seem to have been ...
... true ; but give me leave to tell you that you are no hero . ' KING Arthur ( 1691 ) is another opera . It was the last work that Dryden performed for King Charles , who did not live to see it exhibited , and it does not seem to have been ...
Pàgina 32
... true writer , in his Art of Poetry ; where he says of Dryden , Though prais'd and beaten for another's rhymes , His own deserve as great applause sometimes . His reputation in time was such , that his name was thought necessary to the ...
... true writer , in his Art of Poetry ; where he says of Dryden , Though prais'd and beaten for another's rhymes , His own deserve as great applause sometimes . His reputation in time was such , that his name was thought necessary to the ...
Pàgina 38
... true , he had somewhat to sink from in matter of wit ; but , as for his morals , it is scarcely possible for him to grow a worse man than he was . He has lately wreaked his malice on me for spoiling his three months labour ; but in it ...
... true , he had somewhat to sink from in matter of wit ; but , as for his morals , it is scarcely possible for him to grow a worse man than he was . He has lately wreaked his malice on me for spoiling his three months labour ; but in it ...
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