Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1926 - English poetry |
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Page 251
... poet writ these two lines aboard some smack in a storm , and , being sea - sick , spewed up a good lump of clotted nonsense at once . Here is perhaps a sufficient specimen ; but as the pamphlet , though Dryden's , has never been thought ...
... poet writ these two lines aboard some smack in a storm , and , being sea - sick , spewed up a good lump of clotted nonsense at once . Here is perhaps a sufficient specimen ; but as the pamphlet , though Dryden's , has never been thought ...
Page 386
... poet . In In 1659 , his poem on the death of Oliver was published , with those of Dryden and Waller . his dedication to Dr. Wilkins he appears a very willing and liberal encomiast , both of the living and the dead . He implores his ...
... poet . In In 1659 , his poem on the death of Oliver was published , with those of Dryden and Waller . his dedication to Dr. Wilkins he appears a very willing and liberal encomiast , both of the living and the dead . He implores his ...
Page 445
... poet , and a worse critick . His poetry is first to be considered ; of which it must be confessed that it has not often those felicities of diction which give lustre to sentiments , or that vigour of sentiment that animates diction ...
... poet , and a worse critick . His poetry is first to be considered ; of which it must be confessed that it has not often those felicities of diction which give lustre to sentiments , or that vigour of sentiment that animates diction ...
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