The lives of the English poetsRivington, 1858 - 414 pages |
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... -BUTLER 120 ROCHESTER 131 ROSCOMMON 137 OTWAY 145 WALLER 149 POMFRET 187 DORSET 188 STEPNEY 191 J. PHILIPS . 193 WALSH 205 DRYDEN / 207 SMITH DUKE 304 322 KING 323 VI CONTENTS OF VOLUME 1 . SPRAT HALIFAX PARNELL GARTH.
... -BUTLER 120 ROCHESTER 131 ROSCOMMON 137 OTWAY 145 WALLER 149 POMFRET 187 DORSET 188 STEPNEY 191 J. PHILIPS . 193 WALSH 205 DRYDEN / 207 SMITH DUKE 304 322 KING 323 VI CONTENTS OF VOLUME 1 . SPRAT HALIFAX PARNELL GARTH.
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Samuel Johnson. VI CONTENTS OF VOLUME 1 . SPRAT HALIFAX PARNELL GARTH ROWE ADDISON HUGHES SHEFFIELD PAGE 326 330 334 337 341 350 394 397 JOHNSON'S LIVES . VOL . I. COWLEY . THE Life.
Samuel Johnson. VI CONTENTS OF VOLUME 1 . SPRAT HALIFAX PARNELL GARTH ROWE ADDISON HUGHES SHEFFIELD PAGE 326 330 334 337 341 350 394 397 JOHNSON'S LIVES . VOL . I. COWLEY . THE Life.
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... Sprat , an author whose pregnancy of imagination and elegance of language have deservedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a ...
... Sprat , an author whose pregnancy of imagination and elegance of language have deservedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a ...
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... Sprat , to relate , " That he had this defect in his memory at that time , that his teachers never could bring it to retain the ordinary rules of grammar . " This is an instance of the natural desire of man to pro- pagate a wonder . It ...
... Sprat , to relate , " That he had this defect in his memory at that time , that his teachers never could bring it to retain the ordinary rules of grammar . " This is an instance of the natural desire of man to pro- pagate a wonder . It ...
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... Sprat , " passed of course into other hands ; " and Cowley , being no longer useful at Paris , was in 1656 sent back into England , that " under pretence of privacy and retirement , he might take occasion of giving notice of the posture ...
... Sprat , " passed of course into other hands ; " and Cowley , being no longer useful at Paris , was in 1656 sent back into England , that " under pretence of privacy and retirement , he might take occasion of giving notice of the posture ...
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