Lives of the English Poets: Smith-SavageG. Olms, 1968 - English poetry |
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... published triumphantly by Oldmixon , and may be supposed to have been eagerly received ; but its progress was soon checked , for finding its way into the Journal of Trevoux2 it fell under the eye of Atterbury , then an exile in France ...
... published triumphantly by Oldmixon , and may be supposed to have been eagerly received ; but its progress was soon checked , for finding its way into the Journal of Trevoux2 it fell under the eye of Atterbury , then an exile in France ...
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... published the same year a poem on the Plague of Athens1 ; 3 a subject of which it is not easy to say what could recommend it . To these he added afterwards a poem on Mr. Cowley's death " . After the Restoration he took orders , and by ...
... published the same year a poem on the Plague of Athens1 ; 3 a subject of which it is not easy to say what could recommend it . To these he added afterwards a poem on Mr. Cowley's death " . After the Restoration he took orders , and by ...
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... published a translation of the greater part of the Fourth Georgick upon Bees ; after which , says Dryden , ' my latter swarm is hardly worth the hiving " . ' About the same time he composed the arguments prefixed to 13 the several books ...
... published a translation of the greater part of the Fourth Georgick upon Bees ; after which , says Dryden , ' my latter swarm is hardly worth the hiving " . ' About the same time he composed the arguments prefixed to 13 the several books ...
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