Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Dent, 1925 - English poetry |
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... written in less time than The Royal Martyr ; though the author thought not fit , either ostentatiously or mournfully , to tell how little labour it cost him , or at how short a warning he produced it . It was a temporary perform- ance ...
... written in less time than The Royal Martyr ; though the author thought not fit , either ostentatiously or mournfully , to tell how little labour it cost him , or at how short a warning he produced it . It was a temporary perform- ance ...
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... written in imitation of the Georgics , may be given this peculiar praise , that it is grounded in truth , that the precepts which it contains are exact and just , and that it is , therefore , at once a book of entertainment and of ...
... written in imitation of the Georgics , may be given this peculiar praise , that it is grounded in truth , that the precepts which it contains are exact and just , and that it is , therefore , at once a book of entertainment and of ...
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Samuel Johnson. Scarcely any one of our poets has written so much , and translated so little : the version of Callimachus is sufficiently licentious ; the paraphrase on St. Paul's Exhortation to Charity is eminently beautiful . Alma is ...
Samuel Johnson. Scarcely any one of our poets has written so much , and translated so little : the version of Callimachus is sufficiently licentious ; the paraphrase on St. Paul's Exhortation to Charity is eminently beautiful . Alma is ...
Contents
ABRAHAM COWLEY 16181667 | 44 |
JOHN MILTON 16081674 | 64 |
SAMUEL BUTLER 16121680 | 115 |
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