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 141
... gives him up at once to laughter and contempt , without any quality that can dignify or protect him . In forming the ... give occasion , like his attack upon the bear and fiddle , to express the ridiculous rigour of the sectaries ; like ...
... gives him up at once to laughter and contempt , without any quality that can dignify or protect him . In forming the ... give occasion , like his attack upon the bear and fiddle , to express the ridiculous rigour of the sectaries ; like ...
Page 251
... give , Justice , methinks , is not distributive . To die or kill you , is the alternative , Rather than take your life , I will not live . ' Observe , how prettily our author chops logick in heroick verse . Three such fustian , canting ...
... give , Justice , methinks , is not distributive . To die or kill you , is the alternative , Rather than take your life , I will not live . ' Observe , how prettily our author chops logick in heroick verse . Three such fustian , canting ...
Page 295
... give line for line . It is said that Sandys , whom Dryden calls the best versifier of the last age , has struggled hard to comprise every book of his English Metamorphoses in the same number of verses with the original . Holyday had ...
... give line for line . It is said that Sandys , whom Dryden calls the best versifier of the last age , has struggled hard to comprise every book of his English Metamorphoses in the same number of verses with the original . Holyday had ...
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