The lives of the most eminent English poets, with critical observations on their works, Volum 1G. Walker, J. Akerman, E. Edwards, W. Robinson and Sons, Liverpool, E. Thomson, Manchester, J. Noble, Hull, J. Wilson, Berwick, W. Whyte and Company, Edinburgh, and R. Griffin and Company, Glasgow, 1820 |
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... mentions his exile from the college , relates , with great luxuriance , the compensation which the plea- sures of the theatre afford him . Plays were there fore only criminal when they were acted by acade- mics . He went to the ...
... mentions his exile from the college , relates , with great luxuriance , the compensation which the plea- sures of the theatre afford him . Plays were there fore only criminal when they were acted by acade- mics . He went to the ...
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... mention of a name as a security against the waste of time , and a certain preservative from oblivion . At Florence he could not indeed complain that his merit wanted distinction . Carlo Dati presented him with an encomiastic inscription ...
... mention of a name as a security against the waste of time , and a certain preservative from oblivion . At Florence he could not indeed complain that his merit wanted distinction . Carlo Dati presented him with an encomiastic inscription ...
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... mention of Usher , that he had now adopted the puritanical savageness of manners , His next work was , " The Reason of Church Go- vernment urged against prelacy . By Mr John Mil- ton , 1642. " In this book he discovers , not with ...
... mention of Usher , that he had now adopted the puritanical savageness of manners , His next work was , " The Reason of Church Go- vernment urged against prelacy . By Mr John Mil- ton , 1642. " In this book he discovers , not with ...
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... mentions the new doctrine with con- tempt : and it was , I suppose , thought more wor- thy of derision than of confutation . He complains of this neglect in two sonnets , of which the first is contemptible , and the second not excellent ...
... mentions the new doctrine with con- tempt : and it was , I suppose , thought more wor- thy of derision than of confutation . He complains of this neglect in two sonnets , of which the first is contemptible , and the second not excellent ...
Pàgina 119
... mention of which concludes the register of Milton's removals and habitations . He lived longer in this place than in any other . He was now busied by " Paradise Lost . " Whence he drew the original design has been variously con ...
... mention of which concludes the register of Milton's removals and habitations . He lived longer in this place than in any other . He was now busied by " Paradise Lost . " Whence he drew the original design has been variously con ...
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