Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Dent, 1925 - English poetry |
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... expected from so great a man . " What firmness they expected , or what weakness Cowley discovered , cannot be known . He that misses his end will never be as much pleased as he that attains it , even when he ' can impute no part of his ...
... expected from so great a man . " What firmness they expected , or what weakness Cowley discovered , cannot be known . He that misses his end will never be as much pleased as he that attains it , even when he ' can impute no part of his ...
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... expected from it may be doubted . The Italian Academy seems to have obtained its end . The language was refined , and so fixed that it has changed but little . The French Academy thought that they refined their language , and doubtless ...
... expected from it may be doubted . The Italian Academy seems to have obtained its end . The language was refined , and so fixed that it has changed but little . The French Academy thought that they refined their language , and doubtless ...
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... expected that they who read the Georgics and the Æneid should be much delighted with any version . All these obstacles Dryden saw , and all these he determined to encounter . The expectation of his work was undoubtedly great ; the ...
... expected that they who read the Georgics and the Æneid should be much delighted with any version . All these obstacles Dryden saw , and all these he determined to encounter . The expectation of his work was undoubtedly great ; the ...
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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