Lives of the English Poets, Waller, Milton, CowleyCassell, Limited, 1901 - 192 pages |
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Page 28
... Sprat wrote on the same occasion ; but they were young men , struggling into notice , and hoping for some favour from the ruling party . Waller had little to expect ; he had received nothing but his pardon from Cromwell , and was not ...
... Sprat wrote on the same occasion ; but they were young men , struggling into notice , and hoping for some favour from the ruling party . Waller had little to expect ; he had received nothing but his pardon from Cromwell , and was not ...
Page 101
... When the inscription for the monument of Philips , in which he was said to be soli Miltono secundus , was exhibited to Dr. Sprat , then Dean of Westminster , he 36 refused to admit it ; the name of Milton was MILTON . 101.
... When the inscription for the monument of Philips , in which he was said to be soli Miltono secundus , was exhibited to Dr. Sprat , then Dean of Westminster , he 36 refused to admit it ; the name of Milton was MILTON . 101.
Page 135
... Sprat , an author whose pregnancy of imagination and elegance of language have deservedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a ...
... Sprat , an author whose pregnancy of imagination and elegance of language have deservedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a ...
Page 136
... Sprat , to relate , " that he had this defect in his memory at that time , that his teachers never could bring it to retain the ordinary rules of grammar . ” This is an instance of the natural desire of man to propagate a wonder . It is ...
... Sprat , to relate , " that he had this defect in his memory at that time , that his teachers never could bring it to retain the ordinary rules of grammar . ” This is an instance of the natural desire of man to propagate a wonder . It is ...
Page 140
... Sprat , " passed of course into other hands ; " and Cowley , being no longer useful at Paris , was in 1656 sent back into England , that , " under pretence of privacy and retirement , he might take occasion of giving notice of the ...
... Sprat , " passed of course into other hands ; " and Cowley , being no longer useful at Paris , was in 1656 sent back into England , that , " under pretence of privacy and retirement , he might take occasion of giving notice of the ...
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