The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2B. Tauchnitz, 1858 - 414 pages |
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Samuel Johnson. EACH VOLUME SOLD SEPARATELY .. COLLECTION OF BRITISH AUTHORS TAUCHNITZ EDITION . VOL . 419 .. THE LIVES OF THE ENGLISH POETS BY SAMUEL JOHNSON . IN TWO VOLUMES . VOL . 2 . LEIPZIG : BERNHARD TAUCHNITZ . PARIS : 0 ...
Samuel Johnson. EACH VOLUME SOLD SEPARATELY .. COLLECTION OF BRITISH AUTHORS TAUCHNITZ EDITION . VOL . 419 .. THE LIVES OF THE ENGLISH POETS BY SAMUEL JOHNSON . IN TWO VOLUMES . VOL . 2 . LEIPZIG : BERNHARD TAUCHNITZ . PARIS : 0 ...
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... poetry . The death of Queen Mary ( in 1695 ) produced a subject for all the writers ; perhaps no funeral was ever so ... English language , but fills a great part of the " Musæ Anglicans . " Prior , who was both a poet and a courtier ...
... poetry . The death of Queen Mary ( in 1695 ) produced a subject for all the writers ; perhaps no funeral was ever so ... English language , but fills a great part of the " Musæ Anglicans . " Prior , who was both a poet and a courtier ...
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... poetry . In the last war , when France was disgraced and overpowered in every quarter of the globe ; when Spain , coming to her assistance , only shared her calamities , and the name of an Englishman was reverenced through Europe , no poet ...
... poetry . In the last war , when France was disgraced and overpowered in every quarter of the globe ; when Spain , coming to her assistance , only shared her calamities , and the name of an Englishman was reverenced through Europe , no poet ...
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... Poems necessarily lost part of their value , as their occasions , being less remembered , raised less emotion . Some of them , however , are preserved by their inherent excellence . The burlesque of Boileau's Ode on Namur has , in some ...
... Poems necessarily lost part of their value , as their occasions , being less remembered , raised less emotion . Some of them , however , are preserved by their inherent excellence . The burlesque of Boileau's Ode on Namur has , in some ...
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