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 70
... passed on to Naples , in company of a hermit ; a companion from whom little could be expected , yet to him Milton owed his introduction to Manso , marquis of Villa , who had been before the patron of Tasso . Manso was enough delighted ...
... passed on to Naples , in company of a hermit ; a companion from whom little could be expected , yet to him Milton owed his introduction to Manso , marquis of Villa , who had been before the patron of Tasso . Manso was enough delighted ...
Page 293
... passed , they have nothing yet uncouth or obsolete . He who writes much will not easily escape a manner , such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted . Dryden is always another and the same , he does not exhibit a ...
... passed , they have nothing yet uncouth or obsolete . He who writes much will not easily escape a manner , such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted . Dryden is always another and the same , he does not exhibit a ...
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... passed them over without the least thought of resentment or revenge . As Homer had a Zoilus , so Mr. Rowe had sometimes his ; for there were not wanting malevolent people , and pretenders to poetry too , that would now - and - then bark ...
... passed them over without the least thought of resentment or revenge . As Homer had a Zoilus , so Mr. Rowe had sometimes his ; for there were not wanting malevolent people , and pretenders to poetry too , that would now - and - then bark ...
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