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 89
... called the Cabinet Council ; and next year gratified his malevolence to the clergy , by a Treatise of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Cases , and The Means of removing Hirelings out of the Church . Oliver was now dead ; Richard was ...
... called the Cabinet Council ; and next year gratified his malevolence to the clergy , by a Treatise of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Cases , and The Means of removing Hirelings out of the Church . Oliver was now dead ; Richard was ...
Page 264
... called Dryden's Satire on his Muse ; ascribed , though , as Pope says , falsely , to Somers , who was afterwards Chancellor . The poem , whose soever it was , has much virulence , and some spriteliness . The writer tells all the ill ...
... called Dryden's Satire on his Muse ; ascribed , though , as Pope says , falsely , to Somers , who was afterwards Chancellor . The poem , whose soever it was , has much virulence , and some spriteliness . The writer tells all the ill ...
Page 377
... called as criminals before a court of justice , when it appeared how much the presence of that assembly could disconcert one of their own body . ' After this he rose fast into honours and employments , being made one of the ...
... called as criminals before a court of justice , when it appeared how much the presence of that assembly could disconcert one of their own body . ' After this he rose fast into honours and employments , being made one of the ...
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