Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, PopeGood Press, 6 dec 2019 - 222 pagina's "Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope" by Samuel Johnson contains short biographies and critical appraisals of 52 poets, most of whom lived during the eighteenth century. These were arranged, approximately, by the date of death. Abraham Cowley, Sir John Denham, John Milton, Samuel Butler, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, Thomas Otway, Edmund Waller, and John Pomfret are just some of the honored poets. |
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... thousand years may elapse before there shall appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope . " Pope's laurel , since Johnson's days , has flourished , without showing a dead bough , for all the frosts of hostile ...
... thousand years may elapse before there shall appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope . " Pope's laurel , since Johnson's days , has flourished , without showing a dead bough , for all the frosts of hostile ...
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... thousand; to which Lord Harley, the son of the Earl of Oxford, to whom he had invariably adhered, added an equal sum for the purchase of Down Hall, which Prior was to enjoy during life, and Harley after his decease. He had now, what ...
... thousand; to which Lord Harley, the son of the Earl of Oxford, to whom he had invariably adhered, added an equal sum for the purchase of Down Hall, which Prior was to enjoy during life, and Harley after his decease. He had now, what ...
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