Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Dent, 1925 - English poetry |
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... known that they were published till they appeared long afterwards with other poems . Waller was not one of those ... known to Clarendon , atmong the rest of the men who were eminent in that age for genius and literature ; but known so ...
... known that they were published till they appeared long afterwards with other poems . Waller was not one of those ... known to Clarendon , atmong the rest of the men who were eminent in that age for genius and literature ; but known so ...
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... known , with nicety , which certainly none to whom he was not known can presume to emulate . It is therefore inserted here , with such remarks as others have supplied , after which nothing remains but a critical examination of his ...
... known , with nicety , which certainly none to whom he was not known can presume to emulate . It is therefore inserted here , with such remarks as others have supplied , after which nothing remains but a critical examination of his ...
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... known till he had obtained a rich wife in the city . " He obtained a rich wife about the age of three - and - twenty ; an age before which few men are conspicuous much to their advantage . He was known , however , in parliament and at ...
... known till he had obtained a rich wife in the city . " He obtained a rich wife about the age of three - and - twenty ; an age before which few men are conspicuous much to their advantage . He was known , however , in parliament and at ...
Contents
ABRAHAM COWLEY 16181667 | 44 |
JOHN MILTON 16081674 | 64 |
SAMUEL BUTLER 16121680 | 115 |
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