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... ADDITIONAL APPENDICES MS . of Pope's Iliad · · 459 Thomson and the Surveyor - Generalship of the Leeward Islands · 459-461 INDEX · 463-558 TITLES OF WORKS QUOTED IN THE NOTES 559-568 LIVES OF THE ENGLISH POETS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER VOL .
... ADDITIONAL APPENDICES MS . of Pope's Iliad · · 459 Thomson and the Surveyor - Generalship of the Leeward Islands · 459-461 INDEX · 463-558 TITLES OF WORKS QUOTED IN THE NOTES 559-568 LIVES OF THE ENGLISH POETS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER VOL .
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... quoted in Waller's Poems , ed . G. T. Drury , 1893 , Pref . xv . N. vol . i , p . 410 n . 7 , for 1859 read 1589 . vol . i , p . 412 n . 1 , for Essay of English Poesy read Essay of Dramatic Poesy . vol . ii , p . 87 n . 5 , Ante ...
... quoted in Waller's Poems , ed . G. T. Drury , 1893 , Pref . xv . N. vol . i , p . 410 n . 7 , for 1859 read 1589 . vol . i , p . 412 n . 1 , for Essay of English Poesy read Essay of Dramatic Poesy . vol . ii , p . 87 n . 5 , Ante ...
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... quoting verses and other passages are those of a man who had such a stock of words at his command that in copying he substituted one for another - sometimes for the better . They show that vast as were the powers of his memory , they ...
... quoting verses and other passages are those of a man who had such a stock of words at his command that in copying he substituted one for another - sometimes for the better . They show that vast as were the powers of his memory , they ...
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... quoted by Cunningham , Lives of the Poets , i . 9 . Hurd's Cowley , i . 11 . 3 lb. In an ode addressed to him he says , with enormous and disgusting hyperbole ' ( post , COWLEY , 80 ) : — ' Scarce could the sword dispatch more to the ...
... quoted by Cunningham , Lives of the Poets , i . 9 . Hurd's Cowley , i . 11 . 3 lb. In an ode addressed to him he says , with enormous and disgusting hyperbole ' ( post , COWLEY , 80 ) : — ' Scarce could the sword dispatch more to the ...
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... quoting from Claudian the description of the old man's trees , ' his old contemporary trees , ' adds in a note : - 6.66 Ingentem meminit parvo qui ger- mine quercum Aequaevumque videt consenuisse nemus . " " A neighbouring wood born ...
... quoting from Claudian the description of the old man's trees , ' his old contemporary trees , ' adds in a note : - 6.66 Ingentem meminit parvo qui ger- mine quercum Aequaevumque videt consenuisse nemus . " " A neighbouring wood born ...
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