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... a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life
of Cowley ; , for he writes with so little detail , that scarcely , any thing is distinctly
known , but all is shewn confused and enlarged through the mist of panegyrick .
... a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life
of Cowley ; , for he writes with so little detail , that scarcely , any thing is distinctly
known , but all is shewn confused and enlarged through the mist of panegyrick .
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his work might be burnt , had not the same Augustus , that desired him to write
them preserved them from destruction . A ' scribbling beau may imagine a Poet
may be induced to write , by the very pleasure he finds in writing ; but that is
seldom ...
his work might be burnt , had not the same Augustus , that desired him to write
them preserved them from destruction . A ' scribbling beau may imagine a Poet
may be induced to write , by the very pleasure he finds in writing ; but that is
seldom ...
Page 178
This play is addressed to the earl of Mulgrave , afterwards duke of Buckingham ,
himself , if not a poei , yet a writer of verses , and a critick . In this ad dress Dryden
gave the first hints of his intention to write an epic poem . He mentions his ...
This play is addressed to the earl of Mulgrave , afterwards duke of Buckingham ,
himself , if not a poei , yet a writer of verses , and a critick . In this ad dress Dryden
gave the first hints of his intention to write an epic poem . He mentions his ...
Page 372
T HE brevity with which I am to write the account of ELIJAH I FENTON is not the
effect of indifference or negligence . I have sought intelligence among his
relations in bis native country , but have not obtained it . He was born near
Newcastle in ...
T HE brevity with which I am to write the account of ELIJAH I FENTON is not the
effect of indifference or negligence . I have sought intelligence among his
relations in bis native country , but have not obtained it . He was born near
Newcastle in ...
Page 378
... from real life , such as it appears among the rusticks in parts of England remote
from London . Strele , in some papers of the Guardian , had praised Ambrose
Philips , as the pastoral writer that yielded only to Theocritus , Virgil , and Spenser
.
... from real life , such as it appears among the rusticks in parts of England remote
from London . Strele , in some papers of the Guardian , had praised Ambrose
Philips , as the pastoral writer that yielded only to Theocritus , Virgil , and Spenser
.
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| Title | Lives Volume 1 of The Works of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland, Samuel Johnson |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | A. Miller, 1800 |
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