The Lives of the English Poets: In Two Volumes, Volume 1Tauchnitz, 1858 - 4 pages |
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... " though it was not published till he had been some time at Cambridge . This comedy its of the pastoral kind , which requires no acquaintance with the living world , and therefore the time at which it was composed adds 2 COWLEY .
... " though it was not published till he had been some time at Cambridge . This comedy its of the pastoral kind , which requires no acquaintance with the living world , and therefore the time at which it was composed adds 2 COWLEY .
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... published " Love's Riddle , " with a poetical dedication to Sir Kenelm Digby ; of whose acquaintance all his cotemporaries seem to have been ambitious ; and " Naufragium Joculare , " a comedy written in Latin , but without due attention ...
... published " Love's Riddle , " with a poetical dedication to Sir Kenelm Digby ; of whose acquaintance all his cotemporaries seem to have been ambitious ; and " Naufragium Joculare , " a comedy written in Latin , but without due attention ...
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... published ; for he imagined , as he declared in his preface to a subsequent edition , that " poets are scarcely thought freemen of their company without paying some duties , or obliging themselves to be true to Love . This obligation to ...
... published ; for he imagined , as he declared in his preface to a subsequent edition , that " poets are scarcely thought freemen of their company without paying some duties , or obliging themselves to be true to Love . This obligation to ...
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... published by Brown . These letters , being written like those of other men whose minds are more on things than words , contribute no otherwise to his reputation than as they shew him to have been above the affectation of unseasonable ...
... published by Brown . These letters , being written like those of other men whose minds are more on things than words , contribute no otherwise to his reputation than as they shew him to have been above the affectation of unseasonable ...
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... published his poems , with a preface , in which he seems to have inserted something suppressed in subsequent editions , which was interpreted to denote some relaxation of his loyalty . In this preface he declares , that " his desire had ...
... published his poems , with a preface , in which he seems to have inserted something suppressed in subsequent editions , which was interpreted to denote some relaxation of his loyalty . In this preface he declares , that " his desire had ...
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