Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1968 - English poetry |
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... Duke of Buckingham , when he was Chancellor of Cambridge : this is doubted by the other writer , who yet allows the Duke to have been his frequent benefactor . That both these accounts are false there is reason to suspect , from a story ...
... Duke of Buckingham , when he was Chancellor of Cambridge : this is doubted by the other writer , who yet allows the Duke to have been his frequent benefactor . That both these accounts are false there is reason to suspect , from a story ...
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... Duke of Lerma , animadverted on the Vindication ; and Dryden , in a Preface to the Indian Emperor , replied to the Animadversions with great asperity , and almost with contumely . The dedication to this play is dated the year in which ...
... Duke of Lerma , animadverted on the Vindication ; and Dryden , in a Preface to the Indian Emperor , replied to the Animadversions with great asperity , and almost with contumely . The dedication to this play is dated the year in which ...
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Samuel Johnson, George Birkbeck Norman Hill. DUKE OF Mr. RICHARD DUKE I can find few memorials . He was bred at Westminster and Cambridge ; and Jacob relates , that he was some time tutor to the duke of Richmond . He appears from his ...
Samuel Johnson, George Birkbeck Norman Hill. DUKE OF Mr. RICHARD DUKE I can find few memorials . He was bred at Westminster and Cambridge ; and Jacob relates , that he was some time tutor to the duke of Richmond . He appears from his ...
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