Lives of the English PoetsCaasel et Cie, 1892 |
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... verses gained him the patronage of Dr. Lancaster , after- wards Provost of Queen's College ; by whose recommen- dation he was elected into Magdalen College as a demy , a term by which that society denominates those who are elsewhere ...
... verses gained him the patronage of Dr. Lancaster , after- wards Provost of Queen's College ; by whose recommen- dation he was elected into Magdalen College as a demy , a term by which that society denominates those who are elsewhere ...
Page 10
... verses contained a character of the principal English poets , inscribed to Henry Sacheverell , who was then , if not a poet , a writer of verses ; as is shown by his version of a small part of Virgil's Georgics , published in the ...
... verses contained a character of the principal English poets , inscribed to Henry Sacheverell , who was then , if not a poet , a writer of verses ; as is shown by his version of a small part of Virgil's Georgics , published in the ...
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... verses on the Peace of Ryswick , which he dedicated to Montague , and which was afterwards called , by Smith , " the best Latin poem since theÆneid . " Praise must not be too rigorously examined ; but the performance cannot be denied to ...
... verses on the Peace of Ryswick , which he dedicated to Montague , and which was afterwards called , by Smith , " the best Latin poem since theÆneid . " Praise must not be too rigorously examined ; but the performance cannot be denied to ...
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... verse , however , gain upon the reader ; and the book , though awhile neglected , became in time so much the favourite of the public that before it was reprinted it rose to five times its price . When he returned to England ( in 1702 ) ...
... verse , however , gain upon the reader ; and the book , though awhile neglected , became in time so much the favourite of the public that before it was reprinted it rose to five times its price . When he returned to England ( in 1702 ) ...
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... verses . The best are from an unknown hand , which will perhaps lose somewhat of their praise when the author is known to be Jeffreys . Cato had yet other honours . It was censured as a party - play by a scholar of Oxford ; and defended ...
... verses . The best are from an unknown hand , which will perhaps lose somewhat of their praise when the author is known to be Jeffreys . Cato had yet other honours . It was censured as a party - play by a scholar of Oxford ; and defended ...
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