Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1926 - English poetry |
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Page 103
... publick acclamations , is readily confessed . Wit and literature were on the side of the Court and who that solicited favour or fashion would venture to praise the defender of the regicides ? All that he himself could think his due ...
... publick acclamations , is readily confessed . Wit and literature were on the side of the Court and who that solicited favour or fashion would venture to praise the defender of the regicides ? All that he himself could think his due ...
Page 150
... publick and private quiet , in that age , when subordination was broken , and awe was hissed away ; when any unsettled innovator who could hatch a half- formed notion produced it to the publick ; when every man might become a preacher ...
... publick and private quiet , in that age , when subordination was broken , and awe was hissed away ; when any unsettled innovator who could hatch a half- formed notion produced it to the publick ; when every man might become a preacher ...
Page 431
... publick to assign it to Addison , and it is now printed with his other poetry . Steele carried the Drummer to the playhouse , and afterwards to the press , and sold the copy for fifty guineas . To the opinion of Steele may be added the ...
... publick to assign it to Addison , and it is now printed with his other poetry . Steele carried the Drummer to the playhouse , and afterwards to the press , and sold the copy for fifty guineas . To the opinion of Steele may be added the ...
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