Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1933 - English poetry |
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... produced a subject for all the writers : perhaps no funeral was ever so poetically attended . Dryden , indeed , as a man discountenanced and deprived , was silent ; but scarcely any other maker of verses omitted to bring his tribute of ...
... produced a subject for all the writers : perhaps no funeral was ever so poetically attended . Dryden , indeed , as a man discountenanced and deprived , was silent ; but scarcely any other maker of verses omitted to bring his tribute of ...
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... produced a subject for all the writers : perhaps no funeral was ever so poetically attended . Dryden , indeed , as a man discountenanced and deprived , was silent ; but scarcely any other maker of verses omitted to bring his tribute of ...
... produced a subject for all the writers : perhaps no funeral was ever so poetically attended . Dryden , indeed , as a man discountenanced and deprived , was silent ; but scarcely any other maker of verses omitted to bring his tribute of ...
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... produced in his youth ; and his greatest work , The Pleasures of Imagination , appeared in 1744. I have heard Dodsley , by whom it was published , relate , that when the copy was offered him , the price demanded for it , which was an ...
... produced in his youth ; and his greatest work , The Pleasures of Imagination , appeared in 1744. I have heard Dodsley , by whom it was published , relate , that when the copy was offered him , the price demanded for it , which was an ...
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