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Samuel Johnson. THE LIVES OF THE ENGLISH POETS ; BY SAMUEL JOHNSON , LL . D. IN TWO VOLUMES . VOL . I. STOR LIBRARY A EW - YORK . LEIPZIG BERNHARD TAUCHNITZ 1858 . CONTENTS OF VOLUME I. PAGE COWLEY I DENHAM 48 MILTON.
Samuel Johnson. THE LIVES OF THE ENGLISH POETS ; BY SAMUEL JOHNSON , LL . D. IN TWO VOLUMES . VOL . I. STOR LIBRARY A EW - YORK . LEIPZIG BERNHARD TAUCHNITZ 1858 . CONTENTS OF VOLUME I. PAGE COWLEY I DENHAM 48 MILTON.
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Samuel Johnson. CONTENTS OF VOLUME I. PAGE COWLEY I DENHAM 48 MILTON 56 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 ...
Samuel Johnson. CONTENTS OF VOLUME I. PAGE COWLEY I DENHAM 48 MILTON 56 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 ...
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Samuel Johnson. VI CONTENTS OF VOLUME I. PAGE SPRAT 326 HALIFAX 330 PARNELL GARTH ROWE ADDISON HUGHES 334 837 341 350 394 SHEFFIELD 397 JOHNSON'S LIVES . VOL . I. COWLEY . THE Life.
Samuel Johnson. VI CONTENTS OF VOLUME I. PAGE SPRAT 326 HALIFAX 330 PARNELL GARTH ROWE ADDISON HUGHES 334 837 341 350 394 SHEFFIELD 397 JOHNSON'S LIVES . VOL . I. COWLEY . THE Life.
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Samuel Johnson. JOHNSON'S LIVES . VOL . I. COWLEY . THE Life of COWLEY , notwithstanding the penury of English biography , has been written by Dr. Sprat , an author whose pregnancy of imagination and elegance of language have deservedly ...
Samuel Johnson. JOHNSON'S LIVES . VOL . I. COWLEY . THE Life of COWLEY , notwithstanding the penury of English biography , has been written by Dr. Sprat , an author whose pregnancy of imagination and elegance of language have deservedly ...
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... Cowley , Milton , and Pope , might be said " to lisp in numbers ; " and have given such early proofs , not only of powers of language , but of comprehension of things , as to more tardy minds seem scarcely credible . But of the learned ...
... Cowley , Milton , and Pope , might be said " to lisp in numbers ; " and have given such early proofs , not only of powers of language , but of comprehension of things , as to more tardy minds seem scarcely credible . But of the learned ...
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