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learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , since a volume of his poems was not only written but printed in his thirteenth year ; containing , with other poetical compositions , " The tragical History of Pyramus and Thisbe ...
learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , since a volume of his poems was not only written but printed in his thirteenth year ; containing , with other poetical compositions , " The tragical History of Pyramus and Thisbe ...
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The following fragment , written by Edmund Smith , upon the works of Philips , has been transcribed from the Bodleian manuscripts . A prefatory Discourse to the Poem on Mr. Philips , with a character of his writings .
The following fragment , written by Edmund Smith , upon the works of Philips , has been transcribed from the Bodleian manuscripts . A prefatory Discourse to the Poem on Mr. Philips , with a character of his writings .
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Amboyna is a tissue of mingled dialogue in verse and prose , and was perhaps written in less time than The Virgin Martyr ; though the author thought not fit either ostentatiously or mournfully to tell how little labour it cost him ...
Amboyna is a tissue of mingled dialogue in verse and prose , and was perhaps written in less time than The Virgin Martyr ; though the author thought not fit either ostentatiously or mournfully to tell how little labour it cost him ...
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets: With an Introduction by Arthur Waugh, Volume 1 Volumes 770-771 of Everyman's Library Lives of the English Poets: With an Introduction by Arthur Waugh, Samuel Johnson Volume 84 of Worlds classics |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | Frowde, 191? |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 15 Feb 2019 |
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