The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their WorksG. Clark and son, 1847 - 644 pàgines |
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... Lord Falkland , whose notice cast a lustre on all to whom it was extended . About the time when Oxford was surrendered to the parliament , he followed the Queen to Paris , where he became secretary to the Lord Jermyn , afterwards Earl ...
... Lord Falkland , whose notice cast a lustre on all to whom it was extended . About the time when Oxford was surrendered to the parliament , he followed the Queen to Paris , where he became secretary to the Lord Jermyn , afterwards Earl ...
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... Lord Falkland , whom every man of his time was proud to praise , there are , as there must be in all Cowley's compo- sitions , some striking thoughts , but they are not well wrought . His elegy on Sir Henry Wotten is vigorous and happy ...
... Lord Falkland , whom every man of his time was proud to praise , there are , as there must be in all Cowley's compo- sitions , some striking thoughts , but they are not well wrought . His elegy on Sir Henry Wotten is vigorous and happy ...
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... Lord President of Wales , in 1634 ; and had the honour of being acted by the Earl of Bridgewater's sons and daughter . The fiction is derived from Homer's Circe , but we never can refuse to any modern the liberty of borrowing from Homer ...
... Lord President of Wales , in 1634 ; and had the honour of being acted by the Earl of Bridgewater's sons and daughter . The fiction is derived from Homer's Circe , but we never can refuse to any modern the liberty of borrowing from Homer ...
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... Lord Wilmot , so often mentioned in " Clarendon's History , " was born April 10 , 1647 , at Ditchley , in Oxfordshire . After a grammatical education at the school of Burford , he entered , a nobleman , into Wadham College , in 1659 ...
... Lord Wilmot , so often mentioned in " Clarendon's History , " was born April 10 , 1647 , at Ditchley , in Oxfordshire . After a grammatical education at the school of Burford , he entered , a nobleman , into Wadham College , in 1659 ...
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... Lord Rochester was eminent for the vigour of his colloquial wit , and remarkable for many wild pranks and sallies of extrava- gance . The glare of his general character diffused itself upon his writings ; the compositions of a man whose ...
... Lord Rochester was eminent for the vigour of his colloquial wit , and remarkable for many wild pranks and sallies of extrava- gance . The glare of his general character diffused itself upon his writings ; the compositions of a man whose ...
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