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... since it was first introduced by Suckling , perhaps every generation of poets has been teazed : Savoy - missing Cowley came into the court , Making apologies for his bad play ; Every one gave him so good a report , That Apollo gave ...
... since it was first introduced by Suckling , perhaps every generation of poets has been teazed : Savoy - missing Cowley came into the court , Making apologies for his bad play ; Every one gave him so good a report , That Apollo gave ...
Page 252
Few plays have ever been so beneficial to the writer ; for it procured him the patronage of Halifax , who immediately made him one of the commissioners for licensing coaches , and soon after gave him a place in the pipe - office ...
Few plays have ever been so beneficial to the writer ; for it procured him the patronage of Halifax , who immediately made him one of the commissioners for licensing coaches , and soon after gave him a place in the pipe - office ...
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He gave the same year ( 1721 ) an edition of Shakespeare . His name was now of so much authority , that Tonson thought himself entitled , by annexing it , to demand a subscription of six guineas for Shakespeare's plays in six quarto ...
He gave the same year ( 1721 ) an edition of Shakespeare . His name was now of so much authority , that Tonson thought himself entitled , by annexing it , to demand a subscription of six guineas for Shakespeare's plays in six quarto ...
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Contents
Introduction | 5 |
Authors Advertisement to the Third Edition | 13 |
Milton | 15 |
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Editor | Robert Montagu |
| Publisher | Folio Society, 1965 |
| Length | 420 pages |
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