Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-DrydenClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... manners " which interested Johnson far more than natural objects ' were Birkbeck Hill's special study . With the severe winter of 1890-1 the comparative freedom from ill health which he had for some time enjoyed was broken by a severe ...
... manners " which interested Johnson far more than natural objects ' were Birkbeck Hill's special study . With the severe winter of 1890-1 the comparative freedom from ill health which he had for some time enjoyed was broken by a severe ...
Page xxv
... manner , with respect to authourship , editor- ship , engravings , etc. , etc. My bro- ther will give you a list of the Poets we mean to give , many of which are within the time of the Act of Queen Anne , which Martin and Bell cannot ...
... manner , with respect to authourship , editor- ship , engravings , etc. , etc. My bro- ther will give you a list of the Poets we mean to give , many of which are within the time of the Act of Queen Anne , which Martin and Bell cannot ...
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... manners of the lettered world , and filled Europe with love and poetry . But the basis of all excellence is truth : he that professes love ought to feel its power ' . Petrarch was a real lover , and Laura doubt- less deserved his ...
... manners of the lettered world , and filled Europe with love and poetry . But the basis of all excellence is truth : he that professes love ought to feel its power ' . Petrarch was a real lover , and Laura doubt- less deserved his ...
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... never before publish'd . Faithfully collected from their Originals by Mr. T. Brown . 1702. One of Cowley's letters bears date Sept. 13 , 1653 , p . 158 . 4 lb. p . 130 . display of scholarship ; but the manners of that time 8 COWLEY.
... never before publish'd . Faithfully collected from their Originals by Mr. T. Brown . 1702. One of Cowley's letters bears date Sept. 13 , 1653 , p . 158 . 4 lb. p . 130 . display of scholarship ; but the manners of that time 8 COWLEY.
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Samuel Johnson George Birkbeck Norman Hill. display of scholarship ; but the manners of that time were so tinged with superstition , that I cannot but suspect Cowley of having consulted on this great occasion the Virgilian lots ' , and ...
Samuel Johnson George Birkbeck Norman Hill. display of scholarship ; but the manners of that time were so tinged with superstition , that I cannot but suspect Cowley of having consulted on this great occasion the Virgilian lots ' , and ...
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