The lives of the most eminent English poetsJ. Buckland, 1787 |
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... MOST EMINENT ENGLISH POETS . Life of CowLEY , DENHAM , MILTON , BUTLER , ROCHESTER , ROSCOMMON , OTWAY , WALLER , POMFRET , DORSET , STEPNEY , J. PHILIPS , WALSH , DRYDEN , SMITH , DUKE , Page 5 71 82 177 196 205 216 222 277 280 284 287 ...
... MOST EMINENT ENGLISH POETS . Life of CowLEY , DENHAM , MILTON , BUTLER , ROCHESTER , ROSCOMMON , OTWAY , WALLER , POMFRET , DORSET , STEPNEY , J. PHILIPS , WALSH , DRYDEN , SMITH , DUKE , Page 5 71 82 177 196 205 216 222 277 280 284 287 ...
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... LIVE S OF THE MOST EMINENT ENGLISH POETS ; WITH CRITICAL OBSERVATIONS ON THEIR WORK S. VOL . II . B ADVERTISEMENT TO THE EDITION OF 1783 . T HE Bookfellers Mor 18, CONTENTS OF SECOND VOLUME THE LIVES OF THE MOST EMINENT ENGLISH POETS.
... LIVE S OF THE MOST EMINENT ENGLISH POETS ; WITH CRITICAL OBSERVATIONS ON THEIR WORK S. VOL . II . B ADVERTISEMENT TO THE EDITION OF 1783 . T HE Bookfellers Mor 18, CONTENTS OF SECOND VOLUME THE LIVES OF THE MOST EMINENT ENGLISH POETS.
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... most as an oftentatious display of scholarship ; but the man- ners of that time were so tinged with superstition , that I cannot but fufpect Cowley of having confulted on this great occafion the Virgilian lots * , and to have given fome ...
... most as an oftentatious display of scholarship ; but the man- ners of that time were so tinged with superstition , that I cannot but fufpect Cowley of having confulted on this great occafion the Virgilian lots * , and to have given fome ...
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