Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1926 - English poetry |
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... performance : I am satis- fied that as the Prince and General [ Rupert and Monk ] are incomparably the best subjects I ever had , so what I have written on them is much better than what I have performed on any other . As I have en ...
... performance : I am satis- fied that as the Prince and General [ Rupert and Monk ] are incomparably the best subjects I ever had , so what I have written on them is much better than what I have performed on any other . As I have en ...
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... performance . The different manner and effect with which critical knowledge may be conveyed , was perhaps never more clearly exemplified than in the performances of Rymer and Dryden . It was said of a dispute between two mathematicians ...
... performance . The different manner and effect with which critical knowledge may be conveyed , was perhaps never more clearly exemplified than in the performances of Rymer and Dryden . It was said of a dispute between two mathematicians ...
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... ; but not that he preserved or published the juvenile performance . Not long afterwards he undertook perhaps the most arduous work of its kind , a translation of Virgil , for which he had shewn how well he was qualified by DRYDEN 329.
... ; but not that he preserved or published the juvenile performance . Not long afterwards he undertook perhaps the most arduous work of its kind , a translation of Virgil , for which he had shewn how well he was qualified by DRYDEN 329.
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