Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, PopeCassell, 1889 - 192 pagina's |
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Pagina 9
... passed some of the next years in the quiet cultivation of literature and poetry . The death of Queen Mary ( in 1695 ) produced a subject for all the writers - perhaps no funeral was ever so poetically attended . Dryden , indeed , as a ...
... passed some of the next years in the quiet cultivation of literature and poetry . The death of Queen Mary ( in 1695 ) produced a subject for all the writers - perhaps no funeral was ever so poetically attended . Dryden , indeed , as a ...
Pagina 11
... passed undignified by poetry . In the last war , when France was disgraced and overpowered in every quarter of the globe , when Spain , coming to her assistance , only shared her calamities , and the name of an Englishman was reverenced ...
... passed undignified by poetry . In the last war , when France was disgraced and overpowered in every quarter of the globe , when Spain , coming to her assistance , only shared her calamities , and the name of an Englishman was reverenced ...
Pagina 16
... passed , he was excepted , and continued still in custody , which he had made less tedious by writing his " Alma ... passing the day in contemplative tranquillity . But it seems that busy men seldom live long in a state of quiet . It is ...
... passed , he was excepted , and continued still in custody , which he had made less tedious by writing his " Alma ... passing the day in contemplative tranquillity . But it seems that busy men seldom live long in a state of quiet . It is ...
Pagina 21
... passed through many successions of merry wits , for it is to be found in Ariosto's " Satires , " and is perhaps yet older . But the merit of such stories is the art of telling them . In his amorous effusions he is less happy ; for they ...
... passed through many successions of merry wits , for it is to be found in Ariosto's " Satires , " and is perhaps yet older . But the merit of such stories is the art of telling them . In his amorous effusions he is less happy ; for they ...
Pagina 30
... passed through the usual preparatory studies , as may be reasonably supposed , with great celerity and success , his father thought it proper to assign him a profession , by which something might be gotten , and about the time of the ...
... passed through the usual preparatory studies , as may be reasonably supposed , with great celerity and success , his father thought it proper to assign him a profession , by which something might be gotten , and about the time of the ...
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Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope Samuel Johnson Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2019 |
Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope Samuel Johnson Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2019 |
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