Lives of the English Poets, Waller, Milton, CowleyCassell, Limited, 1901 - 192 pages |
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... published , in separate form , four volumes of Johnson's ' Prefaces , Biographical and Critical , to the most Eminent of the English Poets . " The completion followed in 1781 . " Some- time in March , " Johnson writes in that year , " I ...
... published , in separate form , four volumes of Johnson's ' Prefaces , Biographical and Critical , to the most Eminent of the English Poets . " The completion followed in 1781 . " Some- time in March , " Johnson writes in that year , " I ...
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... published till they appeared long afterwards with other poems . Waller was not one of those idolaters of praise who cultivate their minds at the expense of their fortunes . Rich as he was by inheritance , he took care early to grow ...
... published till they appeared long afterwards with other poems . Waller was not one of those idolaters of praise who cultivate their minds at the expense of their fortunes . Rich as he was by inheritance , he took care early to grow ...
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... published in the most terrific manner . On the 31st of May ( 1643 ) , at a solemn fast , when they were listening to the sermon , a messenger entered the church , and communicated his errand to Pym , who whispered it to others that were ...
... published in the most terrific manner . On the 31st of May ( 1643 ) , at a solemn fast , when they were listening to the sermon , a messenger entered the church , and communicated his errand to Pym , who whispered it to others that were ...
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... published by him in his maturer years . They had been undoubtedly applauded ; for they were such as few can form : yet there is reason to suspect that he was regarded in his college with no great fondness . That he obtained no ...
... published by him in his maturer years . They had been undoubtedly applauded ; for they were such as few can form : yet there is reason to suspect that he was regarded in his college with no great fondness . That he obtained no ...
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... publish them before his poems ; though he says , he cannot be suspected but to have known that they were said non tam de se , quam supra se . At Rome , as at Florence , he stayed only two months : a time indeed sufficient , if he ...
... publish them before his poems ; though he says , he cannot be suspected but to have known that they were said non tam de se , quam supra se . At Rome , as at Florence , he stayed only two months : a time indeed sufficient , if he ...
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