Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Dent, 1925 - English poetry |
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... Character by Oldisworth - Excels in Latin Verse - His loose Life and slovenly Habits - His Tragedy of Phædra and Hippolitus- Buried at Hartham , in Wiltshire - Works and Character - Gilbert Walmsley . EDMUND SMITH is one of those lucky ...
... Character by Oldisworth - Excels in Latin Verse - His loose Life and slovenly Habits - His Tragedy of Phædra and Hippolitus- Buried at Hartham , in Wiltshire - Works and Character - Gilbert Walmsley . EDMUND SMITH is one of those lucky ...
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... character ; he was always reserved to strangers , and was not incited to uncommon freedom by a character like that of Mandeville . From any minute knowledge of his familiar manners , the intervention of sixty years has now debarred us ...
... character ; he was always reserved to strangers , and was not incited to uncommon freedom by a character like that of Mandeville . From any minute knowledge of his familiar manners , the intervention of sixty years has now debarred us ...
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... character : he who , if he had claimed it , might have obtained the diadem , was not likely to be denied the laurel . But time quickly puts an end to artificial and accidental fame ; and Addison is to pass through futurity protected ...
... character : he who , if he had claimed it , might have obtained the diadem , was not likely to be denied the laurel . But time quickly puts an end to artificial and accidental fame ; and Addison is to pass through futurity protected ...
Contents
ABRAHAM COWLEY 16181667 | 44 |
JOHN MILTON 16081674 | 64 |
SAMUEL BUTLER 16121680 | 115 |
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