Lives of the English Poets: Abraham Cowley. Sir John Denham. John Milton. Samuel Butler. Earl of Rochester. Earl of Roscommon. Thomas Otway. Edmund Waller. John Dryden. John Pomfret. Earl of Dorset. George Stepney. John Philips. William Walsh. Edmund Smith. Richard Duke. William King. Thomas Sprat. Earl of Halifax. Thomas Parnell. Samuel Garth. Nicholas Rowe. Joseph Addison. John Hughes. John Sheffield, duke of Buckinghamshire. Matthew PriorOxford University Press, 1952 |
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Pagina 248
... remarks . But let honest credulity beware of receiving characters from contemporary writers . Clifford's remarks , by the favour of Dr. Percy , were at last obtained ; and , that no man may ever want them more , I will extract enough to ...
... remarks . But let honest credulity beware of receiving characters from contemporary writers . Clifford's remarks , by the favour of Dr. Percy , were at last obtained ; and , that no man may ever want them more , I will extract enough to ...
Pagina 290
... remarks on Pope's Odyssey , produces what he thinks an unconquerable quotation from Dry- den's preface to the Eneid , in favour of translating an epick poem into blank verse ; but he forgets that when his author attempted the Iliad ...
... remarks on Pope's Odyssey , produces what he thinks an unconquerable quotation from Dry- den's preface to the Eneid , in favour of translating an epick poem into blank verse ; but he forgets that when his author attempted the Iliad ...
Pagina 367
... remarks upon , twenty - two thousand odd hundred books and manuscripts . The books were certainly not very long , the manuscripts not very difficult , nor the remarks very large ; for the calcu- lator will find that he dispatched seven ...
... remarks upon , twenty - two thousand odd hundred books and manuscripts . The books were certainly not very long , the manuscripts not very difficult , nor the remarks very large ; for the calcu- lator will find that he dispatched seven ...
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Lives of the English Poets: Abraham Cowley. Sir John Denham. John Milton ... Samuel Johnson Fragmentweergave - 1952 |
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