Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1968 - English poetry |
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... compositions are such as might have been written for penance by a hermit , or for hire by a philosophical rhymer who ... composition , which Cowley thinks Pancirolus might have counted in his list of the lost inventions of anti ...
... compositions are such as might have been written for penance by a hermit , or for hire by a philosophical rhymer who ... composition , which Cowley thinks Pancirolus might have counted in his list of the lost inventions of anti ...
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Samuel Johnson, George Birkbeck Norman Hill. One composition must , however , be distinguished . The ode for St ... compositions are the effects of a vigorous genius operating upon large materials . The power that predominated in ...
Samuel Johnson, George Birkbeck Norman Hill. One composition must , however , be distinguished . The ode for St ... compositions are the effects of a vigorous genius operating upon large materials . The power that predominated in ...
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... compositions ; and being conscious of his powers , when he left the university he enlisted himself among the wits . He was the familiar friend of Otway ; and was engaged , among other popular names , in the translations of Ovid and ...
... compositions ; and being conscious of his powers , when he left the university he enlisted himself among the wits . He was the familiar friend of Otway ; and was engaged , among other popular names , in the translations of Ovid and ...
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