The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1B. Tauchnitz, 1858 - 402 pages |
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... 56 MILTON 120 BUTLER 131 ROCHESTER 137 ROSCOMMON 145 OTWAY WALLER POMFRET • DORSET 149 187 188 191 STEPNEY J. PHILIPS WALSH 193 205 207 DRYDEN 804 SMITH 322 DUKE 323 KING VI CONTENTS OF VOLUME I. PAGE SPRAT HALIFAX 326 330.
... 56 MILTON 120 BUTLER 131 ROCHESTER 137 ROSCOMMON 145 OTWAY WALLER POMFRET • DORSET 149 187 188 191 STEPNEY J. PHILIPS WALSH 193 205 207 DRYDEN 804 SMITH 322 DUKE 323 KING VI CONTENTS OF VOLUME I. PAGE SPRAT HALIFAX 326 330.
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... Waller , Denham , Cowley , Cleiveland , and Milton . Denham and Waller sought another way to fame , by improving the harmony of our numbers . Milton tried the metaphysic style only in his lines upon Hobson the Carrier . Cowley adopted ...
... Waller , Denham , Cowley , Cleiveland , and Milton . Denham and Waller sought another way to fame , by improving the harmony of our numbers . Milton tried the metaphysic style only in his lines upon Hobson the Carrier . Cowley adopted ...
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... Waller never could produce . The bulk of his thoughts sometimes swelled his verse to unexpected and inevitable grandeur ; but his excellence of this kind is merely fortuitous : he sinks willingly down to his general carelessness , and ...
... Waller never could produce . The bulk of his thoughts sometimes swelled his verse to unexpected and inevitable grandeur ; but his excellence of this kind is merely fortuitous : he sinks willingly down to his general carelessness , and ...
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... the public attention ; for Waller re- marked , " That he broke out like the Irish rebellion , three- score thousand strong , when nobody was aware , or in the least suspected it ; " an observation which could have 48 DENHAM . DENHAM.
... the public attention ; for Waller re- marked , " That he broke out like the Irish rebellion , three- score thousand strong , when nobody was aware , or in the least suspected it ; " an observation which could have 48 DENHAM . DENHAM.
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... time a design of making him an ad- jutant - general in Sir William Waller's army . But the new- modelling of the army proved an obstruction to the design . " An event cannot be set at a much greater distance MILTON . 69.
... time a design of making him an ad- jutant - general in Sir William Waller's army . But the new- modelling of the army proved an obstruction to the design . " An event cannot be set at a much greater distance MILTON . 69.
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