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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... once alluded to by way of critical comparison . Where are Spenser ? Herrick ? Lovelace ? Campion ? Crashaw ? We soon find that poetry practically begins , in Johnson's judgement , with Waller , and reaches its con- summation in Pope ...
... once alluded to by way of critical comparison . Where are Spenser ? Herrick ? Lovelace ? Campion ? Crashaw ? We soon find that poetry practically begins , in Johnson's judgement , with Waller , and reaches its con- summation in Pope ...
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... once been quoted , by Rymer it has once been praised , and by Dryden , in Mac Flecknoe , it has once been imitated ; nor do I recollect much other notice from its publication till now , in the whole succession of English literature . Of ...
... once been quoted , by Rymer it has once been praised , and by Dryden , in Mac Flecknoe , it has once been imitated ; nor do I recollect much other notice from its publication till now , in the whole succession of English literature . Of ...
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... once the Indian Emperor , and at another time did he not call himself Maximin ? Was not Lyndaraxa once called Almeria ? I mean under Montezuma the Indian Emperor . I protest and vow they are either the same , or so alike that I cannot ...
... once the Indian Emperor , and at another time did he not call himself Maximin ? Was not Lyndaraxa once called Almeria ? I mean under Montezuma the Indian Emperor . I protest and vow they are either the same , or so alike that I cannot ...
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