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... English Poets an illumination and insight that make him the Chaucer of English biog- raphy . So it is that he penetrates swiftly and under- standingly to the heart of a Pope or , far better than Boswell or Sir John Hawkins could dream ...
... English Poets an illumination and insight that make him the Chaucer of English biog- raphy . So it is that he penetrates swiftly and under- standingly to the heart of a Pope or , far better than Boswell or Sir John Hawkins could dream ...
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... English criticism , as the writer who first taught us to determine upon principles the merit of compo- sition . Of our former poets , the greatest dramatist wrote without rules , conducted through life and nature by a genius that rarely ...
... English criticism , as the writer who first taught us to determine upon principles the merit of compo- sition . Of our former poets , the greatest dramatist wrote without rules , conducted through life and nature by a genius that rarely ...
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... English . He translated likewise the Epistle of Sappho to Phaon from Ovid , to com- plete the version which was before imperfect ; and wrote some other small pieces which he afterwards printed . He sometimes imitated the English poets ...
... English . He translated likewise the Epistle of Sappho to Phaon from Ovid , to com- plete the version which was before imperfect ; and wrote some other small pieces which he afterwards printed . He sometimes imitated the English poets ...
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From The Life of Abraham Cowley | 1 |
From The Life of John Milton 16081674 | 21 |
From The Life of John Dryden 16311700 | 43 |
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