Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-DrydenClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... COLLEGE , oxford WITH BRIEF MEMOIR OF DR . BIRKBECK HILL , BY HIS NEPHEW HAROLD SPENCER SCOTT , M.A. , NEW COLLEGE , OXFORD IN THREE VOLUMES VOL . I COWLEY - DRYDEN BRAR OF TH UNIVERSITY OXFORD AT THE CLARENDON PRESS M DCCCC V HENRY ...
... COLLEGE , oxford WITH BRIEF MEMOIR OF DR . BIRKBECK HILL , BY HIS NEPHEW HAROLD SPENCER SCOTT , M.A. , NEW COLLEGE , OXFORD IN THREE VOLUMES VOL . I COWLEY - DRYDEN BRAR OF TH UNIVERSITY OXFORD AT THE CLARENDON PRESS M DCCCC V HENRY ...
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... College on March 1 , 1855. Here he passed into a new world . ' I was brought up , ' he writes , ' among those whose canon of taste was contained in the Edinburgh Review . I sat , as it were , at the feet of Jeffrey and Macaulay . Not a ...
... College on March 1 , 1855. Here he passed into a new world . ' I was brought up , ' he writes , ' among those whose canon of taste was contained in the Edinburgh Review . I sat , as it were , at the feet of Jeffrey and Macaulay . Not a ...
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... college , often in the college itself . . . . The subjects which I had always heard discussed were never discussed here , while matters on which I had never heard any one speak formed here the staple of the talk . I recall how one ...
... college , often in the college itself . . . . The subjects which I had always heard discussed were never discussed here , while matters on which I had never heard any one speak formed here the staple of the talk . I recall how one ...
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... usual payment for a Saturday Review article , that without the one I could not under- * Scholar of Pembroke and Fellow of University College , Oxford . take the other . All in vain have friends urged xiv BRIEF MEMOIR OF.
... usual payment for a Saturday Review article , that without the one I could not under- * Scholar of Pembroke and Fellow of University College , Oxford . take the other . All in vain have friends urged xiv BRIEF MEMOIR OF.
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... College he loved to think that Johnson had been there before him , he had scarcely opened the pages of Boswell since his boyhood until that day . Yet Addison had attracted him in his undergraduate days , and with him and the other great ...
... College he loved to think that Johnson had been there before him , he had scarcely opened the pages of Boswell since his boyhood until that day . Yet Addison had attracted him in his undergraduate days , and with him and the other great ...
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