Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-DrydenClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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Page x
... words , ' was but small , yet so thick was the foliage of the stately trees , and so luxuriant the undergrowth of the shrubberies , that its boun- daries failed to reach the eye . Hard by the main building stood an ancient tower which ...
... words , ' was but small , yet so thick was the foliage of the stately trees , and so luxuriant the undergrowth of the shrubberies , that its boun- daries failed to reach the eye . Hard by the main building stood an ancient tower which ...
Page xi
... which Burne - Jones and William Morris were the leaders . ' It was , ' to quote his own words , " a nest of * Writers and Readers , p . 99 . ... ... singing birds , " who night after night were found DR . BIRKBECK HILL xi.
... which Burne - Jones and William Morris were the leaders . ' It was , ' to quote his own words , " a nest of * Writers and Readers , p . 99 . ... ... singing birds , " who night after night were found DR . BIRKBECK HILL xi.
Page xxvi
... words : " It is great impudence to put Johnson's Poets on the back of books which Johnson neither recommended nor revised . He recommended only Blackmore on the Creation , and Watts . How then are they John- son's ? This is indecent ...
... words : " It is great impudence to put Johnson's Poets on the back of books which Johnson neither recommended nor revised . He recommended only Blackmore on the Creation , and Watts . How then are they John- son's ? This is indecent ...
Page xxvii
... 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 were not always strictly accurate . 3 This valuable collection is the property ...
... 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 were not always strictly accurate . 3 This valuable collection is the property ...
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... words , contribute no otherwise to his reputation than as they shew him to have been above the affectation of unseasonable elegance , and to have known that the business of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetorick ...
... words , contribute no otherwise to his reputation than as they shew him to have been above the affectation of unseasonable elegance , and to have known that the business of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetorick ...
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