The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their WorksG. Clark and son, 1847 - 644 pàgines |
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... discovered ; and I am not without some suspicion that some of Dryden's works are placed in wrong years . I have followed Lang- baine , as the best authority , for his plays : and if I shall hereafter obtain a more correct chronology ...
... discovered ; and I am not without some suspicion that some of Dryden's works are placed in wrong years . I have followed Lang- baine , as the best authority , for his plays : and if I shall hereafter obtain a more correct chronology ...
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... discovered . How far he complied with the men in power , is to be enquired before he can be blamed . It is not said that he told them any secrets , or assisted them by intelligence or any other act . If he only promised to be quiet ...
... discovered . How far he complied with the men in power , is to be enquired before he can be blamed . It is not said that he told them any secrets , or assisted them by intelligence or any other act . If he only promised to be quiet ...
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... discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike . Of wit , thus defined , they have more than enough . The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together ; nature and art are ransacked for illus trations ...
... discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike . Of wit , thus defined , they have more than enough . The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together ; nature and art are ransacked for illus trations ...
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... discovery , With whom more venturers might boldly dare Venture their stakes , with him in joy to share . DONNE . Their thoughts and expressions were sometimes grossly absurd , and such as no figures or license can reconcile to the ...
... discovery , With whom more venturers might boldly dare Venture their stakes , with him in joy to share . DONNE . Their thoughts and expressions were sometimes grossly absurd , and such as no figures or license can reconcile to the ...
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... discovered that any staff was too lyrical for an heroic poem ; but this seems to have been known be fore by May and Sandys , the translators of the Pharsalia and the Metamorphoses . In the Davideis are some hemistichs , or verses left ...
... discovered that any staff was too lyrical for an heroic poem ; but this seems to have been known be fore by May and Sandys , the translators of the Pharsalia and the Metamorphoses . In the Davideis are some hemistichs , or verses left ...
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