Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-DrydenClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... over - intoxicated with the Greek news , ' had been written of his father in 1829 on the tidings of the battle of Navarino . Of 1 Life of Sir Rowland Hill , i . 181 . I Birkbeck Hill himself it is told that , after he X BRIEF MEMOIR OF.
... over - intoxicated with the Greek news , ' had been written of his father in 1829 on the tidings of the battle of Navarino . Of 1 Life of Sir Rowland Hill , i . 181 . I Birkbeck Hill himself it is told that , after he X BRIEF MEMOIR OF.
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Samuel Johnson George Birkbeck Norman Hill. Birkbeck Hill himself it is told that , after he had succeeded to the head mastership of Bruce Castle , he was once asked to receive into the school the son of a planter whose wealth was raised ...
Samuel Johnson George Birkbeck Norman Hill. Birkbeck Hill himself it is told that , after he had succeeded to the head mastership of Bruce Castle , he was once asked to receive into the school the son of a planter whose wealth was raised ...
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... Eng . Poets , 1790 , vol . i . p . 4 n . In the first edition of the Lives the sentence runs - ' I have been told that Dryden's Re- marks , ' & c . ] TO THE THIRD EDITION before . The former edition I xxvi THE AUTHOR'S ADVERTISEMENT.
... Eng . Poets , 1790 , vol . i . p . 4 n . In the first edition of the Lives the sentence runs - ' I have been told that Dryden's Re- marks , ' & c . ] TO THE THIRD EDITION before . The former edition I xxvi THE AUTHOR'S ADVERTISEMENT.
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... 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 of literary history in a great measure depends ...
... 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 of literary history in a great measure depends ...
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... told Malone that ' the first book that gave him a turn for painting was the Jesuit's Perspective , a book which happened to be in the parlour window in the house of his father . ' Prior's Malone , p . 389. Johnson , who must have heard ...
... told Malone that ' the first book that gave him a turn for painting was the Jesuit's Perspective , a book which happened to be in the parlour window in the house of his father . ' Prior's Malone , p . 389. Johnson , who must have heard ...
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