Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Dent, 1925 - English poetry |
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... reputation ; for it was only by his reputation that he could be known , as a writer , to a man who , though he lived a great part of a long life upon an English pension , never condescended to understand the language of the nation that ...
... reputation ; for it was only by his reputation that he could be known , as a writer , to a man who , though he lived a great part of a long life upon an English pension , never condescended to understand the language of the nation that ...
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... reputation . Lord Hastings died of the smallpox ; and his poet has made of the pustules first rosebuds , and then gems ; at last exalts them into stars , and says : No comet need foretell his change drew on , Whose corpse might seem a ...
... reputation . Lord Hastings died of the smallpox ; and his poet has made of the pustules first rosebuds , and then gems ; at last exalts them into stars , and says : No comet need foretell his change drew on , Whose corpse might seem a ...
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... reputation was now so far advanced , that the public began to pay reverence to his name ; and he was solicited to prefix a Preface to the translation of Boccalini , a writer whose satirical vein cost him his life in Italy ; but who ...
... reputation was now so far advanced , that the public began to pay reverence to his name ; and he was solicited to prefix a Preface to the translation of Boccalini , a writer whose satirical vein cost him his life in Italy ; but who ...
Contents
ABRAHAM COWLEY 16181667 | 44 |
JOHN MILTON 16081674 | 64 |
SAMUEL BUTLER 16121680 | 115 |
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