Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1926 - English poetry |
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Page 104
... reputation and price of the copy still ad- vanced , till the Revolution put an end to the secrecy of love , and Paradise Lost broke into open view with sufficient security of kind reception . Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with ...
... reputation and price of the copy still ad- vanced , till the Revolution put an end to the secrecy of love , and Paradise Lost broke into open view with sufficient security of kind reception . Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with ...
Page 227
... reputation , by the transmission of Busby's scholars to the care first of Fell , and afterwards of Aldrich . Here he was dis- tinguished as a genius eminent among the eminent , and for friendship particularly intimate with Mr. Smith ...
... reputation , by the transmission of Busby's scholars to the care first of Fell , and afterwards of Aldrich . Here he was dis- tinguished as a genius eminent among the eminent , and for friendship particularly intimate with Mr. Smith ...
Page 468
... reputation was now so far advanced , that the publick began to pay reverence to his name ; and he was solicited to prefix a preface to the translation of Boccalini , a writer whose satirical vein cost him his life in Italy ; but who ...
... reputation was now so far advanced , that the publick began to pay reverence to his name ; and he was solicited to prefix a preface to the translation of Boccalini , a writer whose satirical vein cost him his life in Italy ; but who ...
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