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... Absalom and Achitophel - The Medal- Mac Flecknoe - Is converted to the Church of Rome -- Publishes The Hind and the Panther - Loses his Office of Poet Laureate - His Translations from Juvenal , Ovid , and Persius - His Translation of ...
... Absalom and Achitophel - The Medal- Mac Flecknoe - Is converted to the Church of Rome -- Publishes The Hind and the Panther - Loses his Office of Poet Laureate - His Translations from Juvenal , Ovid , and Persius - His Translation of ...
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... Absalom and Achitophel , and was perhaps for his factious audacity made the city poet , whose annual office was to describe the glories of the Mayor's day . Of these bards he was the last , and seems not much to have deserved even this ...
... Absalom and Achitophel , and was perhaps for his factious audacity made the city poet , whose annual office was to describe the glories of the Mayor's day . Of these bards he was the last , and seems not much to have deserved even this ...
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... Absalom and Achitophel , which " he thinks a little hard upon his fanatic patrons " ; and charges him with borrowing the plan of his Arthur from the preface to Juvenal , " though he had , " says he , " the baseness not to acknowledge ...
... Absalom and Achitophel , which " he thinks a little hard upon his fanatic patrons " ; and charges him with borrowing the plan of his Arthur from the preface to Juvenal , " though he had , " says he , " the baseness not to acknowledge ...
Contents
ABRAHAM COWLEY 16181667 | 44 |
JOHN MILTON 16081674 | 64 |
SAMUEL BUTLER 16121680 | 115 |
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