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Pagina 181
... Absalom and Achitophel - The Medal- Mac Flecknoe - Is converted to the Church of Rome -- Publishes The Hind and the Panther - Loses his Office of Poet Laureate - His Translations from Juvenal , Ovid , and Persius - His Translation of ...
... Absalom and Achitophel - The Medal- Mac Flecknoe - Is converted to the Church of Rome -- Publishes The Hind and the Panther - Loses his Office of Poet Laureate - His Translations from Juvenal , Ovid , and Persius - His Translation of ...
Pagina 206
... Absalom and Achitophel , and was perhaps for his factious audacity made the city poet , whose annual office was to describe the glories of the Mayor's day . Of these bards he was the last , and seems not much to have deserved even this ...
... Absalom and Achitophel , and was perhaps for his factious audacity made the city poet , whose annual office was to describe the glories of the Mayor's day . Of these bards he was the last , and seems not much to have deserved even this ...
Pagina 243
... Absalom and Achitophel , but upon a narrower plan , gives less pleasure , though it discovers equal abilities in the writer . The super- structure cannot extend beyond the foundation ; a single char- acter or incident cannot furnish as ...
... Absalom and Achitophel , but upon a narrower plan , gives less pleasure , though it discovers equal abilities in the writer . The super- structure cannot extend beyond the foundation ; a single char- acter or incident cannot furnish as ...
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ABRAHAM COWLEY 16181667 | 44 |
JOHN MILTON 16081674 | 64 |
SAMUEL BUTLER 16121680 | 115 |
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