Lives of the English Poets: Smith-SavageG. Olms, 1968 - English poetry |
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Samuel Johnson George Birkbeck Norman Hill. 1OF DUKE ' F Mr. RICHARD DUKE I can find few memorials . He was bred at Westminster and Cambridge 2 ; and Jacob 3 relates that he was some time tutor to the duke of Richmond . 2 He appears from ...
Samuel Johnson George Birkbeck Norman Hill. 1OF DUKE ' F Mr. RICHARD DUKE I can find few memorials . He was bred at Westminster and Cambridge 2 ; and Jacob 3 relates that he was some time tutor to the duke of Richmond . 2 He appears from ...
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... duke of Devonshire 1 . The History of the Heathen Gods , a book composed for schools , was written by him in 17112. The work is useful ; but might have been produced without the powers of King . The same year he published Rufinus , an ...
... duke of Devonshire 1 . The History of the Heathen Gods , a book composed for schools , was written by him in 17112. The work is useful ; but might have been produced without the powers of King . The same year he published Rufinus , an ...
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... Duke's Works he is styled Duke of Buckingham ; and Walpole , in his Catalogue of Noble Authors [ Works , i . 436 ] , mentions a wish , cherished by Sheffield , to be confounded with his predecessor in the title ; " but he would more ...
... Duke's Works he is styled Duke of Buckingham ; and Walpole , in his Catalogue of Noble Authors [ Works , i . 436 ] , mentions a wish , cherished by Sheffield , to be confounded with his predecessor in the title ; " but he would more ...
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