Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1J. Murray, 1854 - 395 pàgines |
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Pàgina viii
... verses , and sometimes very little of them . Now I have begun , however , I do not despair of making an end . " " I thought to have finished Rowe's life to - day , " he writes , April 15 , 1780 , " but I have had five or six visitors ...
... verses , and sometimes very little of them . Now I have begun , however , I do not despair of making an end . " " I thought to have finished Rowe's life to - day , " he writes , April 15 , 1780 , " but I have had five or six visitors ...
Pàgina xxxii
... Verses- His Panegyric on Cromwell- His Poem on the Restoration His first Play- Revival of the Drama - Heroic Plays with Rhyme - Becomes a constant writer for the Stage Made Poet - Laureate His controversy with Settle and Shadwell Is ...
... Verses- His Panegyric on Cromwell- His Poem on the Restoration His first Play- Revival of the Drama - Heroic Plays with Rhyme - Becomes a constant writer for the Stage Made Poet - Laureate His controversy with Settle and Shadwell Is ...
Pàgina 11
... verses on Oliver's death . " This is no favourable representation , yet even in this not much wrong can be discovered . How far he complied with the men in power is to be inquired before he can be blamed . It is not said that he told ...
... verses on Oliver's death . " This is no favourable representation , yet even in this not much wrong can be discovered . How far he complied with the men in power is to be inquired before he can be blamed . It is not said that he told ...
Pàgina 12
... verses on Oliver's death , in which Wood's narrative seems to imply something encomiastic , there has been no appearance . There is a discourse concerning his government , indeed , with verses intermixed , but such as certainly gained ...
... verses on Oliver's death , in which Wood's narrative seems to imply something encomiastic , there has been no appearance . There is a discourse concerning his government , indeed , with verses intermixed , but such as certainly gained ...
Pàgina 15
... verses unjustly in praise of Sam Tuke , 24 Or printed his pitiful Melancholy . " 15 His vehement desire of retirement now came again upon him . " Not finding , " says the morose Wood , " that prefer- ment conferred upon him which he ...
... verses unjustly in praise of Sam Tuke , 24 Or printed his pitiful Melancholy . " 15 His vehement desire of retirement now came again upon him . " Not finding , " says the morose Wood , " that prefer- ment conferred upon him which he ...
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