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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... considered as owing its establishment to Dryden ; from whose time it is apparent that English poetry has had no tendency to relapse to its former savage- ness . The affluence and comprehension of our language is very illustriously ...
... considered as owing its establishment to Dryden ; from whose time it is apparent that English poetry has had no tendency to relapse to its former savage- ness . The affluence and comprehension of our language is very illustriously ...
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... considered as poor . This likewise was granted by the College . It was then considered who should distribute the medicines , and who should settle their prices . The physicians procured some apothecaries to undertake the dispensation ...
... considered as poor . This likewise was granted by the College . It was then considered who should distribute the medicines , and who should settle their prices . The physicians procured some apothecaries to undertake the dispensation ...
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... considered as a critick ; a name which the present generation is scarcely willing to allow him . His criticism is condemned as tentative or experi- mental , rather than scientifick , and he is considered as deciding by taste rather than ...
... considered as a critick ; a name which the present generation is scarcely willing to allow him . His criticism is condemned as tentative or experi- mental , rather than scientifick , and he is considered as deciding by taste rather than ...
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