Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-DrydenClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... Malone writing of the Lives says , ' Dr. Johnson having , as he himself told me , made no preparation for that ... Malone's Dryden , i . 2 . The errors Johnson often makes in quoting verses and other passages are those of a man who ...
... Malone writing of the Lives says , ' Dr. Johnson having , as he himself told me , made no preparation for that ... Malone's Dryden , i . 2 . The errors Johnson often makes in quoting verses and other passages are those of a man who ...
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... 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 ...
... 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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... Malone's Dryden , iii . 611. Hurd's Select Works in Verse and Prose of Cowley , published in 1772 in two small octavo volumes , reached a third edition in five years . appeared a race of writers that may be termed the 18 COWLEY.
... Malone's Dryden , iii . 611. Hurd's Select Works in Verse and Prose of Cowley , published in 1772 in two small octavo volumes , reached a third edition in five years . appeared a race of writers that may be termed the 18 COWLEY.
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... Malone wrote on April 5 , 1779 : - ' Johnson told me , " we have had too many honeysuckle lives of Milton , and that his should be in another strain . " Hist . MSS . Com . Report xii . App . x . 345 . ' Johnson's treatment of Milton ...
... Malone wrote on April 5 , 1779 : - ' Johnson told me , " we have had too many honeysuckle lives of Milton , and that his should be in another strain . " Hist . MSS . Com . Report xii . App . x . 345 . ' Johnson's treatment of Milton ...
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... Malone saw a copy of Milton's book'in which the former possessor says in Latin , that Milton's brother told him that with all the legal arguments Milton was furnished by Bradshaw . ' Prior's Malone , p . 395 . For the burning of the ...
... Malone saw a copy of Milton's book'in which the former possessor says in Latin , that Milton's brother told him that with all the legal arguments Milton was furnished by Bradshaw . ' Prior's Malone , p . 395 . For the burning of the ...
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