Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-DrydenClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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Page xvii
... hope . A second serious illness closely followed , com- pelling him to spend three winters on the shores of the Mediterranean . ' During two of them my malady and my distress , ' he writes , ' allowed of no rival , and my work made ...
... hope . A second serious illness closely followed , com- pelling him to spend three winters on the shores of the Mediterranean . ' During two of them my malady and my distress , ' he writes , ' allowed of no rival , and my work made ...
Page xx
... hope of completing the main work of his life as a scholar by a new edition of the Lives of the Poets . Of this he had already laid the foundations as far back as 1892 ; but he now put the work aside for a time in order to turn to this ...
... hope of completing the main work of his life as a scholar by a new edition of the Lives of the Poets . Of this he had already laid the foundations as far back as 1892 ; but he now put the work aside for a time in order to turn to this ...
Page xxvi
... hope , by the honest desire of giving useful pleasure . In this minute kind of History the succession of facts is not easily discovered , and I am not without suspicion that some of Dryden's works are placed in wrong years 3. I have ...
... hope , by the honest desire of giving useful pleasure . In this minute kind of History the succession of facts is not easily discovered , and I am not without suspicion that some of Dryden's works are placed in wrong years 3. I have ...
Page xxvi
... hope , by the honest desire of giving useful pleasure . In this minute kind of History the succession of facts is not easily discovered , and I am not without suspicion that some of Dryden's works are placed in wrong years . I have ...
... hope , by the honest desire of giving useful pleasure . In this minute kind of History the succession of facts is not easily discovered , and I am not without suspicion that some of Dryden's works are placed in wrong years . I have ...
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... hope , by seeing him fortunate , and partaking his prosperity . We know at least , from Sprat's account , that he always acknowledged her care , and justly paid the dues of filial gratitude 3 . In the window of his mother's apartment ...
... hope , by seeing him fortunate , and partaking his prosperity . We know at least , from Sprat's account , that he always acknowledged her care , and justly paid the dues of filial gratitude 3 . In the window of his mother's apartment ...
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