Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1J. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1925 - 404 pagina's |
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Pagina 22
... common subject which poets have contended to adorn . Dryden's Night is well known ; Donne's is as follows : Thou seest me here at midnight , now all rest : Time's dead low - water ; when all minds divest To - morrow's business , when ...
... common subject which poets have contended to adorn . Dryden's Night is well known ; Donne's is as follows : Thou seest me here at midnight , now all rest : Time's dead low - water ; when all minds divest To - morrow's business , when ...
Pagina 84
... common duty of living in quiet , to be rewarded with the common right of pro- tection ; but this , which , when he skulked from the approach of his King , was perhaps more than he hoped , seems not to have satisfied him ; for no sooner ...
... common duty of living in quiet , to be rewarded with the common right of pro- tection ; but this , which , when he skulked from the approach of his King , was perhaps more than he hoped , seems not to have satisfied him ; for no sooner ...
Pagina 265
... common notions , and equal to common expectations ; such a state as affords plenty and tranquillity , without exclusion of intellectual pleasures . Perhaps no composition in our language has been oftener perused than Pomfret's Choice ...
... common notions , and equal to common expectations ; such a state as affords plenty and tranquillity , without exclusion of intellectual pleasures . Perhaps no composition in our language has been oftener perused than Pomfret's Choice ...
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WILLIAM CONGREVE 1670172829 | 29 |
George Granville LORD LANSDOWN 1665173435 | 35 |
INTRODUCTION by L ArcherHind | 44 |
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