Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-DrydenClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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Page xxvi
... wrote to Mrs. Delany on Nov. 16 , 1779 : ' I hope you will get Dr. Johnson's Prefaces to the Lives , & c . , of the Poets , which however is not easy , because they are not to be bought unless you buy also a perfect litter of poets in ...
... wrote to Mrs. Delany on Nov. 16 , 1779 : ' I hope you will get Dr. Johnson's Prefaces to the Lives , & c . , of the Poets , which however is not easy , because they are not to be bought unless you buy also a perfect litter of poets in ...
Page xxvi
... wrote is Johnson's receipt for £ 1oo from to Boswell , who had seen the forththe proprietors of The Lives of the coming work advertised , ' I am enPoets for revising the last edition of gaged to write little Lives , and little that work ...
... wrote is Johnson's receipt for £ 1oo from to Boswell , who had seen the forththe proprietors of The Lives of the coming work advertised , ' I am enPoets for revising the last edition of gaged to write little Lives , and little that work ...
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... wrote , ' till the general re- demption . ' 3 in Cowley's Discourse by Way of Vision concerning the Government of Oliver Cromwell is a copy of verses written , he says , ' on the funeral day of the late man who made himself to be called ...
... wrote , ' till the general re- demption . ' 3 in Cowley's Discourse by Way of Vision concerning the Government of Oliver Cromwell is a copy of verses written , he says , ' on the funeral day of the late man who made himself to be called ...
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... wrote a Song of Triumph . But this was a time of such general hope that great numbers were inevitably disappointed , and Cowley found his reward very tediously delayed3 . He had been promised by both Charles the first and second the ...
... wrote a Song of Triumph . But this was a time of such general hope that great numbers were inevitably disappointed , and Cowley found his reward very tediously delayed3 . He had been promised by both Charles the first and second the ...
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... wrote of him in 1699 : - ' One of our late great poets is sunk in his reputation because he could never forego any conceit which came in his way , but swept , like a drag - net , great and small .... For this reason , though he must ...
... wrote of him in 1699 : - ' One of our late great poets is sunk in his reputation because he could never forego any conceit which came in his way , but swept , like a drag - net , great and small .... For this reason , though he must ...
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