The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volume 2C. Bathurst ... [and 34 others], 1783 - English poetry Comprises short biographies and critical appraisals of 52 English poets, most of whom lived during the eighteenth century. |
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... POETS ; WITH CRITICAL OBSERVATIONS ON THEIR WORK S. By SAMUEL JOHNSON . A NEW EDITION , CORRECTED . THE SECOND VOLUME . LONDON : PRINTED FOR C. BATHURST , J. BUCKLAND , W.STRAHAN , J.RIVING- TON AND SONS , T. DAVIES , T.PAYNE , L. DAVIS ...
... POETS ; WITH CRITICAL OBSERVATIONS ON THEIR WORK S. By SAMUEL JOHNSON . A NEW EDITION , CORRECTED . THE SECOND VOLUME . LONDON : PRINTED FOR C. BATHURST , J. BUCKLAND , W.STRAHAN , J.RIVING- TON AND SONS , T. DAVIES , T.PAYNE , L. DAVIS ...
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... poet . When the king was restored , Dryden , like the other panegyrifts of ufurpation , changed his opinion , or his profeffion , and published ASTREA REDUX , a poem on the happy restor- ation and return of his most facred Majefty King ...
... poet . When the king was restored , Dryden , like the other panegyrifts of ufurpation , changed his opinion , or his profeffion , and published ASTREA REDUX , a poem on the happy restor- ation and return of his most facred Majefty King ...
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... Poetry ; Howard , in his Preface to the Duke of Lerma , animad- verted on the Vindication ; and Dryden , in a Preface to the Indian Emperor , replied to the Animadverfions with great afperity , and almost + almost with contumely . The ...
... Poetry ; Howard , in his Preface to the Duke of Lerma , animad- verted on the Vindication ; and Dryden , in a Preface to the Indian Emperor , replied to the Animadverfions with great afperity , and almost + almost with contumely . The ...
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... poet - laureat . The falary of the laureat had been raised in favour of Jonfon , by Charles the First , from an hundred ... Poetry , an elegant and instruc- tive dialogue ; in which we are told by Prior , that the principal character is ...
... poet - laureat . The falary of the laureat had been raised in favour of Jonfon , by Charles the First , from an hundred ... Poetry , an elegant and instruc- tive dialogue ; in which we are told by Prior , that the principal character is ...
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