Lives of the English Poets: Abraham Cowley. Sir John Denham. John Milton. Samuel Butler. Earl of Rochester. Earl of Roscommon. Thomas Otway. Edmund Waller. John Dryden. John Pomfret. Earl of Dorset. George Stepney. John Philips. William Walsh. Edmund Smith. Richard Duke. William King. Thomas Sprat. Earl of Halifax. Thomas Parnell. Samuel Garth. Nicholas Rowe. Joseph Addison. John Hughes. John Sheffield, duke of Buckinghamshire. Matthew PriorOxford University Press, 1952 - English poetry |
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Page xiii
... better example . ' And , upon the other hand , when he is brought face to face with the pastoral atmosphere of Lycidas , he finds it ' vulgar and disgusting , ' while the elaborate machinery of The Rape of the Lock is praised as a ...
... better example . ' And , upon the other hand , when he is brought face to face with the pastoral atmosphere of Lycidas , he finds it ' vulgar and disgusting , ' while the elaborate machinery of The Rape of the Lock is praised as a ...
Page 296
... better qualified to give the meaning than the spirit of Seneca , has introduced his version of three tragedies by a defence of close translation . The authority of Horace , which the new translators cited in defence of their practice ...
... better qualified to give the meaning than the spirit of Seneca , has introduced his version of three tragedies by a defence of close translation . The authority of Horace , which the new translators cited in defence of their practice ...
Page 347
... better sort his ideas , and take in the sundry parts of a science at one view , without interruption or confusion . Some indeed of his acquaintance , who were pleased to distinguish between the wit and the scholar , extolled him ...
... better sort his ideas , and take in the sundry parts of a science at one view , without interruption or confusion . Some indeed of his acquaintance , who were pleased to distinguish between the wit and the scholar , extolled him ...
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