Lives of the English Poets, Waller, Milton, CowleyCassell, Limited, 1901 - 192 pages |
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... little to expect ; he had received nothing but his pardon from Cromwell , and was not likely to ask anything from those who should succeed him . Te Soon afterwards , the Restoration supplied him with another 28 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... little to expect ; he had received nothing but his pardon from Cromwell , and was not likely to ask anything from those who should succeed him . Te Soon afterwards , the Restoration supplied him with another 28 LIVES OF THE POETS .
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Samuel Johnson. Te Soon afterwards , the Restoration supplied him with another subject ; and he exerted his imagination , his elegance , and his melody , with equal alacrity , for Charles the Second . It is not possible to read , without ...
Samuel Johnson. Te Soon afterwards , the Restoration supplied him with another subject ; and he exerted his imagination , his elegance , and his melody , with equal alacrity , for Charles the Second . It is not possible to read , without ...
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... supplied ; after which , nothing remains but a critical examination of his poetry . " Edmund Waller , " says Clarendon , " was born to a very fair estate , by the parsimony , or frugality , of a wise father and mother ; and he thought ...
... supplied ; after which , nothing remains but a critical examination of his poetry . " Edmund Waller , " says Clarendon , " was born to a very fair estate , by the parsimony , or frugality , of a wise father and mother ; and he thought ...
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... supplied with grand as with soft images ; for beauty is more easily found than magnanimity . The delicacy , which he cultivated , restrains him to a certain nicety and caution , even when he writes upon the slightest matter . He has ...
... supplied with grand as with soft images ; for beauty is more easily found than magnanimity . The delicacy , which he cultivated , restrains him to a certain nicety and caution , even when he writes upon the slightest matter . He has ...
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... supplied The earth's bold sons ' prodigious pride : Heaven with these engines had been scaled , When mountains heap'd on mountains fail'd . Sometimes having succeeded in the first part , he makes a feeble conclusion . In the song of ...
... supplied The earth's bold sons ' prodigious pride : Heaven with these engines had been scaled , When mountains heap'd on mountains fail'd . Sometimes having succeeded in the first part , he makes a feeble conclusion . In the song of ...
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