Lives of the English Poets: With an Introduction by Arthur Waugh, Volume 1 |
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Thus Donne shews his medicinal knowledge in some encomiastick verses : In every thing there naturally grows A Balsamum to keep it ... Nor trust I this with hopes ; and yet scarce true This bravery is , since these times shew'd me you .
Thus Donne shews his medicinal knowledge in some encomiastick verses : In every thing there naturally grows A Balsamum to keep it ... Nor trust I this with hopes ; and yet scarce true This bravery is , since these times shew'd me you .
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To expose Dryden's method of analysing his expressions , he tries the same experiment upon the description of the ships in the Indian Emperor , of which however he does not deny the excellence ; but intends to shew , that by studied ...
To expose Dryden's method of analysing his expressions , he tries the same experiment upon the description of the ships in the Indian Emperor , of which however he does not deny the excellence ; but intends to shew , that by studied ...
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In 1712 he translated Vertot's History of the Revolution of Portugal ; 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 ...
In 1712 he translated Vertot's History of the Revolution of Portugal ; 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 ...
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