Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-DrydenClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... tells us , ' dis- covered in me a certain vein of humour , and for the most part sent me books to review which deserved little more than ridicule . What havoc I made among the novelists and minor poets ! I amused my readers because I ...
... tells us , ' dis- covered in me a certain vein of humour , and for the most part sent me books to review which deserved little more than ridicule . What havoc I made among the novelists and minor poets ! I amused my readers because I ...
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... tells us , ' scarcely a quotation or a reference in the notes which I did not verify in the proof by a comparison with the original authority . The labour was great , but it was not more than a man should be ready to undergo who ...
... tells us , ' scarcely a quotation or a reference in the notes which I did not verify in the proof by a comparison with the original authority . The labour was great , but it was not more than a man should be ready to undergo who ...
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... tell the particular little chance that filled my head first with such chimes of verse as have never since left ringing there ; for I remember , when I began to read and to take some pleasure in it , there was wont to lie in my mother's ...
... tell the particular little chance that filled my head first with such chimes of verse as have never since left ringing there ; for I remember , when I began to read and to take some pleasure in it , there was wont to lie in my mother's ...
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... tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a com- modious incident , though the book to which he prefixed his narrative contained its confutation . A memory admitting some things and rejecting others ...
... tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a com- modious incident , though the book to which he prefixed his narrative contained its confutation . A memory admitting some things and rejecting others ...
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... tells how he went to Trinity ' College , where , after dinner , he saw a comedy in English , and gave all sighnes of great acceptance which he could , and more than the University dared expect . ' Cooper's Annals of • Cambridge , iii ...
... tells how he went to Trinity ' College , where , after dinner , he saw a comedy in English , and gave all sighnes of great acceptance which he could , and more than the University dared expect . ' Cooper's Annals of • Cambridge , iii ...
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