The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2C. Bathurst ... [and 34 others], 1783 Comprises short biographies and critical appraisals of 52 English poets, most of whom lived during the eighteenth century. |
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... Lord Haftings , compofed with great ambition of such con- ceits as , notwithstanding the reformation be- gun by Waller and Denham , the example of Cowley ftill kept in reputation . Lord Haf- tings died of the small - pox , and his poet ...
... Lord Haftings , compofed with great ambition of such con- ceits as , notwithstanding the reformation be- gun by Waller and Denham , the example of Cowley ftill kept in reputation . Lord Haf- tings died of the small - pox , and his poet ...
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... Lord Protector ; which , compared with the verses of Sprat and Waller on the fame occafion , were fufficient to raise great ex- pectations 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 Waller on the fame occafion , were fufficient to raise great ex- pectations of the rising poet . When the king was restored , Dryden , like the other panegyrists of ...
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... Lord Mulgrave , it was neceffary to introduce them by a preface ; and Dry- den , who on fuch occafions was regularly fummoned , prefixed a difcourfe upon tranf- lation , which was then ftruggling for the liberty that it now enjoys . Why ...
... Lord Mulgrave , it was neceffary to introduce them by a preface ; and Dry- den , who on fuch occafions was regularly fummoned , prefixed a difcourfe upon tranf- lation , which was then ftruggling for the liberty that it now enjoys . Why ...
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... lord Shaftesbury's escape from a profecution , by the ignoramus of a grand jury of Londoners , In both poems he maintains the fame prin- ciples , and faw them both attacked by the fame antagonist . Elkanah Settle , who had anfwered ...
... lord Shaftesbury's escape from a profecution , by the ignoramus of a grand jury of Londoners , In both poems he maintains the fame prin- ciples , and faw them both attacked by the fame antagonist . Elkanah Settle , who had anfwered ...
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... Lord Mayor and Aldermen to be in- terdicted the fight of the London Cuckold .. This is the general strain , and therefore I fhall be easily excufed the labour of more tranfcription . Brown does not wholly forget paft tranf- actions ...
... Lord Mayor and Aldermen to be in- terdicted the fight of the London Cuckold .. This is the general strain , and therefore I fhall be easily excufed the labour of more tranfcription . Brown does not wholly forget paft tranf- actions ...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volum 2 Samuel Johnson Visualització completa - 1801 |
The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volum 2 Samuel Johnson Visualització completa - 1857 |
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