Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-DrydenClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... mention with regret the fact that he did not begin Greek until he was sixteen . From Bruce Castle School Birkbeck Hill went up to Oxford , matriculating from Pembroke College on March 1 , 1855. Here he passed into a new world . ' I was ...
... mention with regret the fact that he did not begin Greek until he was sixteen . From Bruce Castle School Birkbeck Hill went up to Oxford , matriculating from Pembroke College on March 1 , 1855. Here he passed into a new world . ' I was ...
Page xvii
... mention of Professor Morfill , Professor Burdon Sanderson , and the Rev. C. W. Boase among 1 Fellow of Exeter , and University Reader in Foreign History . LIVES OF POETS . 1 . b the friends made during this Oxford time . He availed DR ...
... mention of Professor Morfill , Professor Burdon Sanderson , and the Rev. C. W. Boase among 1 Fellow of Exeter , and University Reader in Foreign History . LIVES OF POETS . 1 . b the friends made during this Oxford time . He availed DR ...
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... mentions ' the cheerful store - room , in whose hot window- seat I used to sit and read Cowley . ' Essays of Elia , p . 206 . Cowley , according to Dryden , looked upon Chaucer as a dry old- fashioned wit , not worth reviving . Having ...
... mentions ' the cheerful store - room , in whose hot window- seat I used to sit and read Cowley . ' Essays of Elia , p . 206 . Cowley , according to Dryden , looked upon Chaucer as a dry old- fashioned wit , not worth reviving . Having ...
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... mentions Mr. Bois , whose house in Cheapside was burnt down in Aug. 1664. Diary , ii . 368 . 46 ' Eho , nonne hoc monstri simile est ? ' TERENCE , Eun . ii . 3. 43 . 5 At St. Anne's Hill was Fox's last home . ' ' Dictum sapienti sat est ...
... mentions Mr. Bois , whose house in Cheapside was burnt down in Aug. 1664. Diary , ii . 368 . 46 ' Eho , nonne hoc monstri simile est ? ' TERENCE , Eun . ii . 3. 43 . 5 At St. Anne's Hill was Fox's last home . ' ' Dictum sapienti sat est ...
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... mention the ancients , he might have found it full - blown in modern Italy . The Lovers ' Fletas , Bractons , Cokes . As for Tibullus's reports , They never pass'd for law in courts ; For Cowley's briefs , and pleas of Waller , Still ...
... mention the ancients , he might have found it full - blown in modern Italy . The Lovers ' Fletas , Bractons , Cokes . As for Tibullus's reports , They never pass'd for law in courts ; For Cowley's briefs , and pleas of Waller , Still ...
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