The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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... Latin , but without due attention to the ancient models ; for it was not loose verse , but This volume was not published before 1633 , when Cowley was fifteen years old . Dr. Johnson , as well as former biographers , seems to have been ...
... Latin , but without due attention to the ancient models ; for it was not loose verse , but This volume was not published before 1633 , when Cowley was fifteen years old . Dr. Johnson , as well as former biographers , seems to have been ...
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... Latin several books on plants , of which the first and second display the qualities of herbs , in elegiac verse ; the third and fourth , the beauties . of flowers in various measures ; and the fifth and sixth , the uses of trees , in ...
... Latin several books on plants , of which the first and second display the qualities of herbs , in elegiac verse ; the third and fourth , the beauties . of flowers in various measures ; and the fifth and sixth , the uses of trees , in ...
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Samuel Johnson. If the Latin performances of Cowley and Milton be compared ( for May I hold to be superior to both ) , the advantage seems to lie on the side of Cowley . Milton is generally content to express the thoughts of the ancients ...
Samuel Johnson. If the Latin performances of Cowley and Milton be compared ( for May I hold to be superior to both ) , the advantage seems to lie on the side of Cowley . Milton is generally content to express the thoughts of the ancients ...
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... Latin ; a poem on the Sheldonian Theatre , in which all kinds of verse are shaken to gether , is unhappily inserted in the Muse Angli First published in quarto , 1669 , under the title of " Carmen Pindaricum in Theatrum Sheldonia- num ...
... Latin ; a poem on the Sheldonian Theatre , in which all kinds of verse are shaken to gether , is unhappily inserted in the Muse Angli First published in quarto , 1669 , under the title of " Carmen Pindaricum in Theatrum Sheldonia- num ...
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... Latin poems . He married a gentlewoman of the name of Caston , a Welch family , by whom he had two sons , John , the poet , and Christopher , who studied the law , and adhered , as the law taught him , to the King's party , for which he ...
... Latin poems . He married a gentlewoman of the name of Caston , a Welch family , by whom he had two sons , John , the poet , and Christopher , who studied the law , and adhered , as the law taught him , to the King's party , for which he ...
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Lives of the English Poets: The Prior Congreve, Blackmore and Pope Samuel Johnson No preview available - 2003 |
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