Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 |
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... produced from the same university , the two great Poets , Cowley and Milton , of dissimilar genius , of opposite principles ; but concurring in the cultivation of Latin poetry , in which the English , till their works and May's poem ...
... produced from the same university , the two great Poets , Cowley and Milton , of dissimilar genius , of opposite principles ; but concurring in the cultivation of Latin poetry , in which the English , till their works and May's poem ...
Page 407
... produced the Biter ; with which , though it was unfavourably treated by the audience , he was himself delighted ; for he is said to have sat in the house , laughing with great vehemence , whenever he had in his own opinion produced a ...
... produced the Biter ; with which , though it was unfavourably treated by the audience , he was himself delighted ; for he is said to have sat in the house , laughing with great vehemence , whenever he had in his own opinion produced a ...
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... produced an Ode to the Creator of the World , from the Fragments of Orpheus ; and brought upon the Stage an opera called Calypso and Telemachus , intended to shew that the English language might be very happily adapted to musick . This ...
... produced an Ode to the Creator of the World , from the Fragments of Orpheus ; and brought upon the Stage an opera called Calypso and Telemachus , intended to shew that the English language might be very happily adapted to musick . This ...
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Lives of the English Poets: The Prior Congreve, Blackmore and Pope Samuel Johnson No preview available - 2003 |
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