Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Dent, 1925 - English poetry |
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... performance Suckling could have brought the gaiety , but not the knowledge ; Dryden could have supplied the know ... performances by their just value , and has therefore closed his Miscellanies with the verses upon Crashaw , which ...
... performance Suckling could have brought the gaiety , but not the knowledge ; Dryden could have supplied the know ... performances by their just value , and has therefore closed his Miscellanies with the verses upon Crashaw , which ...
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... performance was so much disapproved that he was compelled to recall it , and change it from its imperfect state to ... performances ; it will be fit , however , to enumerate them , and to take especial notice of those that are ...
... performance was so much disapproved that he was compelled to recall it , and change it from its imperfect state to ... performances ; it will be fit , however , to enumerate them , and to take especial notice of those that are ...
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... performance , which , though all Langbaine's charges of plagiarism should be allowed , shows such facility of com- position , such readiness of language , and such copiousness of sentiment , as since the name of Lopez de Vega perhaps no ...
... performance , which , though all Langbaine's charges of plagiarism should be allowed , shows such facility of com- position , such readiness of language , and such copiousness of sentiment , as since the name of Lopez de Vega perhaps no ...
Contents
ABRAHAM COWLEY 16181667 | 44 |
JOHN MILTON 16081674 | 64 |
SAMUEL BUTLER 16121680 | 115 |
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