Lives of the English Poets: Smith-SavageOctagon Books, 1967 - English poetry |
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... published triumphantly by Oldmixon , and may be supposed to have been eagerly received ; but its progress was soon checked , for finding its way into the Journal of Trevoux2 it fell under the eye of Atterbury , then an exile in France ...
... published triumphantly by Oldmixon , and may be supposed to have been eagerly received ; but its progress was soon checked , for finding its way into the Journal of Trevoux2 it fell under the eye of Atterbury , then an exile in France ...
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... published by him A Journey to London , after the 7 method of Dr. Martin Lister , who had published A Journey to Paris ' . And in 1700 he satirised the Royal Society , at least been discovered in Varillas's book . ' For the correction of ...
... published by him A Journey to London , after the 7 method of Dr. Martin Lister , who had published A Journey to Paris ' . And in 1700 he satirised the Royal Society , at least been discovered in Varillas's book . ' For the correction of ...
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... published a translation of the greater part of the Fourth Georgick upon Bees5 ; after which , says Dryden , ' my latter swarm is hardly worth the hiving " About the same time he composed the arguments prefixed to 13 the several books of ...
... published a translation of the greater part of the Fourth Georgick upon Bees5 ; after which , says Dryden , ' my latter swarm is hardly worth the hiving " About the same time he composed the arguments prefixed to 13 the several books of ...
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