Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-DrydenClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... Lives says , ' Dr. Johnson having , as he himself told me , made no preparation for that difficult and extensive under- taking , not being in the habit of extracting from books and commit- ting to paper those facts on which the accuracy ...
... Lives says , ' Dr. Johnson having , as he himself told me , made no preparation for that difficult and extensive under- taking , not being in the habit of extracting from books and commit- ting to paper those facts on which the accuracy ...
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... live in it to some particular studies . ' DRYDEN , ib . xv . 293 . ' I am persuaded , ' wrote Cowper ( Works , vi . 94 ) , that Milton did not write his Paradise Lost , nor Homer his Iliad , nor Newton his Principia , without immense ...
... live in it to some particular studies . ' DRYDEN , ib . xv . 293 . ' I am persuaded , ' wrote Cowper ( Works , vi . 94 ) , that Milton did not write his Paradise Lost , nor Homer his Iliad , nor Newton his Principia , without immense ...
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... the same ill- treatment had , Whose verse shall live for ever to upbraid Th'ungrateful world that left such worth unpaid . ' Oldham's Works , 1703 , p . 420 . Comedy of The Guardian for the stage , he produced COWLEY 13.
... the same ill- treatment had , Whose verse shall live for ever to upbraid Th'ungrateful world that left such worth unpaid . ' Oldham's Works , 1703 , p . 420 . Comedy of The Guardian for the stage , he produced COWLEY 13.
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