Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1968 - English poetry |
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Page 141
... gives him up at once to laughter and contempt , without any quality that can dignify or protect him . In forming the ... give occasion , like his attack upon the bear and fiddle , to express the ridiculous rigour of the sectaries ; like ...
... gives him up at once to laughter and contempt , without any quality that can dignify or protect him . In forming the ... give occasion , like his attack upon the bear and fiddle , to express the ridiculous rigour of the sectaries ; like ...
Page 295
... give line for line . It is said that Sandys , whom Dryden calls the best versifier of the last age , has struggled hard to comprise every book of his English Metamorphoses in the same number of verses with the original . Holyday had ...
... give line for line . It is said that Sandys , whom Dryden calls the best versifier of the last age , has struggled hard to comprise every book of his English Metamorphoses in the same number of verses with the original . Holyday had ...
Page 390
... give way to poetry . At twenty - five he produced The Ambitious Stepmother , which was received with so much favour ... gives any other qualities than those which make a con- queror . The fashion however of the time was , to accumu- late ...
... give way to poetry . At twenty - five he produced The Ambitious Stepmother , which was received with so much favour ... gives any other qualities than those which make a con- queror . The fashion however of the time was , to accumu- late ...
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