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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... as one of the king's scholars by Dr. Bufby , whom he long after continued to reverence , he was in 1650 elected to one of the Westminster scholarships at Cam- bridge . Of Of his fchool performances has appeared only a poem on 2 DRY DE N.
... as one of the king's scholars by Dr. Bufby , whom he long after continued to reverence , he was in 1650 elected to one of the Westminster scholarships at Cam- bridge . Of Of his fchool performances has appeared only a poem on 2 DRY DE N.
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With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. Of his fchool performances has appeared only a poem on the death of Lord Haftings , compofed with great ambition of such con- ceits as , notwithstanding the reformation be- gun by ...
With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. Of his fchool performances has appeared only a poem on the death of Lord Haftings , compofed with great ambition of such con- ceits as , notwithstanding the reformation be- gun by ...
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... performance was so much dif- approved , that he was compelled to recall it , and change it from its imperfect state to the form in which it now appears , and which • is yet fufficiently defective to vindicate the criticks . 3 is 6 DR Y ...
... performance was so much dif- approved , that he was compelled to recall it , and change it from its imperfect state to the form in which it now appears , and which • is yet fufficiently defective to vindicate the criticks . 3 is 6 DR Y ...
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... performance : " I am fatisfied that as the " Prince and General [ Rupert and Monk ] are incomparably the beft fubjects I ever " had , fo what I have written on them is " much better than what I have performed 56 on any other . As I have ...
... performance : " I am fatisfied that as the " Prince and General [ Rupert and Monk ] are incomparably the beft fubjects I ever " had , fo what I have written on them is " much better than what I have performed 56 on any other . As I have ...
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... performance , written in the time of the Dutch war , to in- flame the nation against their enemies ; to whom he hopes , as he declares in his Epi- logue , to make his poetry not lefs deftructive than that by which Tyrtæus of old ...
... performance , written in the time of the Dutch war , to in- flame the nation against their enemies ; to whom he hopes , as he declares in his Epi- logue , to make his poetry not lefs deftructive than that by which Tyrtæus of old ...
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