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92 While he was yet at school he produced a comedy cailed “ Love's Riddle , ”
though it was not published till he had been some time at Cambridge . This
comedy is of the pastoral kind , which requires no acquaintance with the living
world ...
92 While he was yet at school he produced a comedy cailed “ Love's Riddle , ”
though it was not published till he had been some time at Cambridge . This
comedy is of the pastoral kind , which requires no acquaintance with the living
world ...
Page 127
If we produced any thing worthy of notice before the elegies of Milton , it was
perhaps Alabaster's Roxana * Of these exercises , which the rules of the
University required , some were published by him in his maturer years . They had
been ...
If we produced any thing worthy of notice before the elegies of Milton , it was
perhaps Alabaster's Roxana * Of these exercises , which the rules of the
University required , some were published by him in his maturer years . They had
been ...
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He published about the same time his Areopagitica , a Speich of Mr. John Milton
for the liberty of unlicensed Printing . The danger of such unbounded liberty , and
the danger of bounding it , have produced a problem in the science of ...
He published about the same time his Areopagitica , a Speich of Mr. John Milton
for the liberty of unlicensed Printing . The danger of such unbounded liberty , and
the danger of bounding it , have produced a problem in the science of ...
Page 165
The first Reply to Milton's Defensio Populi was published in 1651 , called
Apologia pro Rege & Populo Anglicano , contra Johannis Polypragmatici ( alias
Miltoni ) defensionem destructivam Regis & Populi . Of this the author was not
known ...
The first Reply to Milton's Defensio Populi was published in 1651 , called
Apologia pro Rege & Populo Anglicano , contra Johannis Polypragmatici ( alias
Miltoni ) defensionem destructivam Regis & Populi . Of this the author was not
known ...
Page 206
As these poems were published by another bookfeller , it has been asked ,
whether Simmons was discouraged from receiving them by the Dw sale of the
former . Why a writer changed his boukfeller a hundred ġears ago , I ain far from
hoping ...
As these poems were published by another bookfeller , it has been asked ,
whether Simmons was discouraged from receiving them by the Dw sale of the
former . Why a writer changed his boukfeller a hundred ġears ago , I ain far from
hoping ...
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| Title | The Lives of the English Poets; and a criticism on their works, Volume 1 The Lives of the English Poets; and a criticism on their works, Samuel Johnson |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Published | 1790 |
| Original from | The British Library |
| Digitized | 10 Oct 2019 |
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