Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Dent, 1925 - English poetry |
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Page 255
... effect : the crown therefore could not reasonably be divided . In a general survey of Dryden's labours , he appears to have a mind very comprehensive by nature , and much enriched with acquired knowledge . His compositions are the effects ...
... effect : the crown therefore could not reasonably be divided . In a general survey of Dryden's labours , he appears to have a mind very comprehensive by nature , and much enriched with acquired knowledge . His compositions are the effects ...
Page 329
... effect of his civility rather than approbation . Three of his Latin poems are upon subjects on which perhaps he would not have ventured to have written in his own language : The Battle of the Pigmies and Cranes ; The Barometer ; and A ...
... effect of his civility rather than approbation . Three of his Latin poems are upon subjects on which perhaps he would not have ventured to have written in his own language : The Battle of the Pigmies and Cranes ; The Barometer ; and A ...
Page 346
... effect . One experi- ment , however , remained to be tried : when he found his life near its end , he directed the young Lord to be called ; and when he desired , with great tenderness , to hear his last in- junctions , told him , " I ...
... effect . One experi- ment , however , remained to be tried : when he found his life near its end , he directed the young Lord to be called ; and when he desired , with great tenderness , to hear his last in- junctions , told him , " I ...
Contents
ABRAHAM COWLEY 16181667 | 44 |
JOHN MILTON 16081674 | 64 |
SAMUEL BUTLER 16121680 | 115 |
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Lives of the English Poets: The Prior Congreve, Blackmore and Pope Samuel Johnson No preview available - 2003 |
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