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 115
... formed very early that system of diction , and mode of verse , which his maturer judgement approved , and from which he never endeavoured nor desired to deviate . Nor does Comus afford only a specimen of his language ; it exhibits ...
... formed very early that system of diction , and mode of verse , which his maturer judgement approved , and from which he never endeavoured nor desired to deviate . Nor does Comus afford only a specimen of his language ; it exhibits ...
Page 141
... forming the character of Hudibras , and describing his person and habiliments , the author seems to labour with a ... formed , or in what manner he would have rewarded or punished his hero , it is now vain to conjecture . His BUTLER 141.
... forming the character of Hudibras , and describing his person and habiliments , the author seems to labour with a ... formed , or in what manner he would have rewarded or punished his hero , it is now vain to conjecture . His BUTLER 141.
Page 180
... to have had , the original copy . It can raise no wonder that they formed one plot out of these two designs , however remote from each other , when they saw the same agent employed in both , and 180 LIVES OF THE POETS.
... to have had , the original copy . It can raise no wonder that they formed one plot out of these two designs , however remote from each other , when they saw the same agent employed in both , and 180 LIVES OF THE POETS.
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