The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their WorksBell & Bradfute, James M'Cliesh and William Blackwood ; Gilbert & Hodges, Dublin ; and S. Campbell, New York, 1806 |
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... Lord Hastings , composed with great ambition of such conceits as , notwith- standing the reformation begun by Waller and Denham , the example of Cowley still kept in re- putation . Lord Hastings died of the small - pox ; and his poet ...
... Lord Hastings , composed with great ambition of such conceits as , notwith- standing the reformation begun by Waller and Denham , the example of Cowley still kept in re- putation . Lord Hastings died of the small - pox ; and his poet ...
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... Lord Pro- tector ; which , compared with the verses of Sprat and Waller on the same occasion , were sufficient to raise great expectations of the rising poet . When the King was restored , Dryden , like the other panegyrists of ...
... Lord Pro- tector ; which , compared with the verses of Sprat and Waller on the same occasion , were sufficient to raise great expectations of the rising poet . When the King was restored , Dryden , like the other panegyrists of ...
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... Lord Mulgrave , it was necessary to introduce them by a preface ; and Dryden , who on such occasions was regularly summoned , prefixed a discourse upon translation , which was then struggling for the lit berty that it now enjoys . Why ...
... Lord Mulgrave , it was necessary to introduce them by a preface ; and Dryden , who on such occasions was regularly summoned , prefixed a discourse upon translation , which was then struggling for the lit berty that it now enjoys . Why ...
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... year he published The Medal , of which the subject is a medal struck on Lord Shaftesbury's escape from a prosecution , by the ignoramus of a grand jury of Londoners . In both poems he maintains the same principles , and 40 DRYDEN .
... year he published The Medal , of which the subject is a medal struck on Lord Shaftesbury's escape from a prosecution , by the ignoramus of a grand jury of Londoners . In both poems he maintains the same principles , and 40 DRYDEN .
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... Lord Mayor and " Aldermen to be interdicted the sight of The " London Cuckolds . " This is the general strain , and therefore I shall be easily excused the labour of more transcription . Brown does not wholly forget past transactions ...
... Lord Mayor and " Aldermen to be interdicted the sight of The " London Cuckolds . " This is the general strain , and therefore I shall be easily excused the labour of more transcription . Brown does not wholly forget past transactions ...
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