Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1926 - English poetry |
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... compositions are such as might have been written for penance by a hermit , or for hire by a philosophical rhymer who ... composition , which Cowley thinks Pancirolus might have counted in his list of the lost inventions of ...
... compositions are such as might have been written for penance by a hermit , or for hire by a philosophical rhymer who ... composition , which Cowley thinks Pancirolus might have counted in his list of the lost inventions of ...
Page 166
... compositions as in those of some contemporaries , there are at least fewer faults . Nor is this his highest praise ; for Mr. Pope has celebrated him as the only moral writer of King Charles's reign : Unhappy Dryden ! in all Charles's ...
... compositions as in those of some contemporaries , there are at least fewer faults . Nor is this his highest praise ; for Mr. Pope has celebrated him as the only moral writer of King Charles's reign : Unhappy Dryden ! in all Charles's ...
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... compositions ; and being con- scious of his powers , when he left the university he enlisted himself among the wits . He was the familiar friend of Otway ; and was engaged , among other popular names , in the translations of Ovid and ...
... compositions ; and being con- scious of his powers , when he left the university he enlisted himself among the wits . He was the familiar friend of Otway ; and was engaged , among other popular names , in the translations of Ovid and ...
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