Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope |
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... published , and a full list will be sent by the Publishers post free on application . The Haunted Man Heroes and Hero - Worship The Complete Angier Friends in Council The Autobiography of Warren Hastings The Life of Nelson .. The Rivals ...
... published , and a full list will be sent by the Publishers post free on application . The Haunted Man Heroes and Hero - Worship The Complete Angier Friends in Council The Autobiography of Warren Hastings The Life of Nelson .. The Rivals ...
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... published " The City Mouse and Country Mouse , " to ridicule Dryden's " Hind and Panther , " in conjunction with Mr. Montague . There is a story of great pain suffered , and of tears shed , on this occasion by Dryden , who thought it ...
... published " The City Mouse and Country Mouse , " to ridicule Dryden's " Hind and Panther , " in conjunction with Mr. Montague . There is a story of great pain suffered , and of tears shed , on this occasion by Dryden , who thought it ...
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... easy to determine . Tickell might have been impressed with his expectation by Swift's " Proposal for Ascertaining the English Language , " then lately published . In the Parliament that met in 1701 he was chosen 10 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... easy to determine . Tickell might have been impressed with his expectation by Swift's " Proposal for Ascertaining the English Language , " then lately published . In the Parliament that met in 1701 he was chosen 10 LIVES OF THE POETS .
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... published , soon afterwards , a volume of poems , with the encomiastic character of his deceased patron , the Earl of Dorset . It began with the College exercise , and ended with the " Nutbrown Maid . " The Battle of Ramillies soon ...
... published , soon afterwards , a volume of poems , with the encomiastic character of his deceased patron , the Earl of Dorset . It began with the College exercise , and ended with the " Nutbrown Maid . " The Battle of Ramillies soon ...
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... published , written , as it happened , by any wit of the party , and sometimes , as is said , by Mrs. Manley . Some are owned by Swift ; and one , in ridicule of Garth's verses to Godolphin upon the loss of his place , was written by ...
... published , written , as it happened , by any wit of the party , and sometimes , as is said , by Mrs. Manley . Some are owned by Swift ; and one , in ridicule of Garth's verses to Godolphin upon the loss of his place , was written by ...
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