Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1J. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1925 - 404 pagina's |
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Pagina 161
... reputation ; for it was only by his reputation that he could be known , as a writer , to a man who , though he lived a great part of a long life upon an English pension , never condescended to understand the language of the nation that ...
... reputation ; for it was only by his reputation that he could be known , as a writer , to a man who , though he lived a great part of a long life upon an English pension , never condescended to understand the language of the nation that ...
Pagina 182
... reputation . Lord Hastings died of the smallpox ; and his poet has made of the pustules first rosebuds , and then gems ; at last exalts them into stars , and says : No comet need foretell his change drew on , Whose corpse might seem a ...
... reputation . Lord Hastings died of the smallpox ; and his poet has made of the pustules first rosebuds , and then gems ; at last exalts them into stars , and says : No comet need foretell his change drew on , Whose corpse might seem a ...
Pagina 203
... reputation of Dryden , took Settle into his protection , and endeavoured to persuade the public that its approbation had been to that time misplaced . Settle was a while in high reputation : his Empress of Morocco , having [ 1673 ] ...
... reputation of Dryden , took Settle into his protection , and endeavoured to persuade the public that its approbation had been to that time misplaced . Settle was a while in high reputation : his Empress of Morocco , having [ 1673 ] ...
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WILLIAM CONGREVE 1670172829 | 29 |
GEORGE GRANVILLE LORD Lansdown 1665173435 | 35 |
INTRODUCTION by L ArcherHind | 44 |
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