Lives of the English Poets: Smith-SavageClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... poem on the Peace of Ryswick was the best Latin poem since the Aeneid . Post , ADDISON , 18 . 4 Trapp quotes the following lines : - - ' Quin nunc requiris tecta virentia Nini ferocis , nunc Babel arduum , Immane opus ! crescentibusque ...
... poem on the Peace of Ryswick was the best Latin poem since the Aeneid . Post , ADDISON , 18 . 4 Trapp quotes the following lines : - - ' Quin nunc requiris tecta virentia Nini ferocis , nunc Babel arduum , Immane opus ! crescentibusque ...
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... poem . ' Biog . Brit . 1760 , P. 3354 . He attacks Blackmore , who had censured Philips for his rugged- ness : - " Yet not like thee the heavy critic soars , But paints in fustian , or in turn deplores ; LIVES OF POETS . II C till he ...
... poem . ' Biog . Brit . 1760 , P. 3354 . He attacks Blackmore , who had censured Philips for his rugged- ness : - " Yet not like thee the heavy critic soars , But paints in fustian , or in turn deplores ; LIVES OF POETS . II C till he ...
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... poem beginning : - ' My much loved friend , when thou art from my eyes , How do I loathe the day , and light despise . ' Eng . Poets , xv . 209 . He replied in two Epistles , one in English , the other in Latin . 16. xxv . 229 , 231 . 6 ...
... poem beginning : - ' My much loved friend , when thou art from my eyes , How do I loathe the day , and light despise . ' Eng . Poets , xv . 209 . He replied in two Epistles , one in English , the other in Latin . 16. xxv . 229 , 231 . 6 ...
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... poem ; by which , though 11 fanciful readers in the pride of sagacity have given it a political interpretation , was meant originally no more than it expressed , as it was dictated only by the author's delight in the quiet of Mountown 2 ...
... poem ; by which , though 11 fanciful readers in the pride of sagacity have given it a political interpretation , was meant originally no more than it expressed , as it was dictated only by the author's delight in the quiet of Mountown 2 ...
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... Poets , xxvi . 213. He ends his poem by comparing Oliver Crom- well to Moses and Richard Cromwell to Joshua . In his History of the Royal Society , p . 152 , speaking of Charles I's ' suffering virtues ' he says : -'In them he was only ...
... Poets , xxvi . 213. He ends his poem by comparing Oliver Crom- well to Moses and Richard Cromwell to Joshua . In his History of the Royal Society , p . 152 , speaking of Charles I's ' suffering virtues ' he says : -'In them he was only ...
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