Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-DrydenClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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Page xxvii
... publick acknowledge- ment 3 . The Advertisement of the first edition ends here . 2 Malone writing of the Lives says , ' Dr. Johnson having , as he himself told me , made no preparation for that difficult and extensive under- taking ...
... publick acknowledge- ment 3 . The Advertisement of the first edition ends here . 2 Malone writing of the Lives says , ' Dr. Johnson having , as he himself told me , made no preparation for that difficult and extensive under- taking ...
Page 14
... publick under the title of The Cutter of Coleman - street ' . It was treated on the stage with great severity , and was afterwards censured as a satire on the king's party . Mr. Dryden , who went with Mr. Sprat to the first exhibition ...
... publick under the title of The Cutter of Coleman - street ' . It was treated on the stage with great severity , and was afterwards censured as a satire on the king's party . Mr. Dryden , who went with Mr. Sprat to the first exhibition ...
Page 71
... publick attention , for Waller remarked ' that he broke out like the Irish rebellion threescore thousand strong , when nobody was aware , or in the least sus- pected it " ' — an observation which could have had no propriety , had his ...
... publick attention , for Waller remarked ' that he broke out like the Irish rebellion threescore thousand strong , when nobody was aware , or in the least sus- pected it " ' — an observation which could have had no propriety , had his ...
Page 75
... publick would now make him happy . But human felicity is short and uncertain : a second marriage brought upon him so much disquiet as for a time disordered his understanding ; and Butler lampooned him for his lunacy . I know not whether ...
... publick would now make him happy . But human felicity is short and uncertain : a second marriage brought upon him so much disquiet as for a time disordered his understanding ; and Butler lampooned him for his lunacy . I know not whether ...
Page 80
... publick hate , Reason with rage , and eloquence with fate . ' On Cowley . ' To him no author was unknown , Yet what he wrote was all his own 3 ; Horace's wit , and Virgil's state , He did not steal , but emulate ! And when he would like ...
... publick hate , Reason with rage , and eloquence with fate . ' On Cowley . ' To him no author was unknown , Yet what he wrote was all his own 3 ; Horace's wit , and Virgil's state , He did not steal , but emulate ! And when he would like ...
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