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 129
... Death , brought upon the stage , all as active persons of the drama ; but no precedents can justify absurdity . Milton's allegory of Sin and Death is undoubtedly faulty . Sin is indeed the mother of Death , and may be allowed to be the ...
... Death , brought upon the stage , all as active persons of the drama ; but no precedents can justify absurdity . Milton's allegory of Sin and Death is undoubtedly faulty . Sin is indeed the mother of Death , and may be allowed to be the ...
Page 344
... death , were the occasion of the son's being left very young in the hands of a near relation ( one who married Mr. Neale's sister ) whose name was Smith . This gentleman and his lady treated him as their own child , and put him to ...
... death , were the occasion of the son's being left very young in the hands of a near relation ( one who married Mr. Neale's sister ) whose name was Smith . This gentleman and his lady treated him as their own child , and put him to ...
Page 419
... death of Socrates ; a story of which , as Tickell remarks , the basis is narrow , and to which I know not how love could have been appended . There would , however , have been no want either of virtue in the sentiments , or elegance in ...
... death of Socrates ; a story of which , as Tickell remarks , the basis is narrow , and to which I know not how love could have been appended . There would , however , have been no want either of virtue in the sentiments , or elegance in ...
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