Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Dent, 1925 - English poetry |
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Page 158
... necessary to direct the reader's opinion . " Let us not , " says his last ingenious biographer , " condemn him with untempered severity , because he was not a prodigy which the world hath seldom seen , because his character included not ...
... necessary to direct the reader's opinion . " Let us not , " says his last ingenious biographer , " condemn him with untempered severity , because he was not a prodigy which the world hath seldom seen , because his character included not ...
Page 204
... necessary to the success of every poetical or literary performance , and therefore he was engaged to contribute something , what- ever it might be , to many publications . He prefixed the Life of Polybius to the translation of Sir Henry ...
... necessary to the success of every poetical or literary performance , and therefore he was engaged to contribute something , what- ever it might be , to many publications . He prefixed the Life of Polybius to the translation of Sir Henry ...
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... necessary to copy Horace almost word by word ; Feltham , his contemporary and adversary , considers it as indispensably requisite in a translation to give line for line . It is said that Sandys , whom Dryden calls the best versifier of ...
... necessary to copy Horace almost word by word ; Feltham , his contemporary and adversary , considers it as indispensably requisite in a translation to give line for line . It is said that Sandys , whom Dryden calls the best versifier of ...
Contents
ABRAHAM COWLEY 16181667 | 44 |
JOHN MILTON 16081674 | 64 |
SAMUEL BUTLER 16121680 | 115 |
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