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 85
... probably have begun it , after he had lost his eyes ; but , having had it always before him , he continued it , says Philips , almost to his dying - day ; but the papers were so discomposed and deficient , that they could not be fitted ...
... probably have begun it , after he had lost his eyes ; but , having had it always before him , he continued it , says Philips , almost to his dying - day ; but the papers were so discomposed and deficient , that they could not be fitted ...
Page 132
... probably written by Raleigh himself . These petty performances cannot be supposed to have much influenced Milton , who more probably took his hint from Trisino's Italia Liberata ; and , finding blank verse easier than rhyme , was ...
... probably written by Raleigh himself . These petty performances cannot be supposed to have much influenced Milton , who more probably took his hint from Trisino's Italia Liberata ; and , finding blank verse easier than rhyme , was ...
Page 390
... probably from that time suffered law gradually to give way to poetry . At twenty - five he produced The Ambitious Stepmother , which was received with so much favour , that he devoted himself from that time wholly to elegant literature ...
... probably from that time suffered law gradually to give way to poetry . At twenty - five he produced The Ambitious Stepmother , which was received with so much favour , that he devoted himself from that time wholly to elegant literature ...
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