Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Dent, 1925 - English poetry |
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... Sprat , an author whose pregnancy of imagination and elegance of language have de- servedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a ...
... Sprat , an author whose pregnancy of imagination and elegance of language have de- servedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a ...
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... Sprat , " weary of the vexa- tions and formalities of an active condition . He had been perplexed with a long compliance to foreign manners . He was satiated with the arts of a court ; which sort of life , though his virtue had made it ...
... Sprat , " weary of the vexa- tions and formalities of an active condition . He had been perplexed with a long compliance to foreign manners . He was satiated with the arts of a court ; which sort of life , though his virtue had made it ...
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... SPRAT was born in 1636 , at Tallaton , in Devonshire , the son of a clergyman ; and having been educated , as he tells of himself , not at Westminster or Eton , but at a little school by the churchyard side , became a commoner of Wadham ...
... SPRAT was born in 1636 , at Tallaton , in Devonshire , the son of a clergyman ; and having been educated , as he tells of himself , not at Westminster or Eton , but at a little school by the churchyard side , became a commoner of Wadham ...
Contents
ABRAHAM COWLEY 16181667 | 44 |
JOHN MILTON 16081674 | 64 |
SAMUEL BUTLER 16121680 | 115 |
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