The lives of the English poets: in 2 vol, Volume 1Tauchnitz, 1858 - 402 pages |
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... reputation ; though , during the suppression of the theatres , it was sometimes privately acted with sufficient approbation . In 1643 , being now master of arts , he was , by the prevalence of the parliament , ejected from Cambridge ...
... reputation ; though , during the suppression of the theatres , it was sometimes privately acted with sufficient approbation . In 1643 , being now master of arts , he was , by the prevalence of the parliament , ejected from Cambridge ...
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... reputation than as they shew him to have been above the affectation of unseasonable elegance , and to have known that the business of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetoric . One passage , however , seems not ...
... reputation than as they shew him to have been above the affectation of unseasonable elegance , and to have known that the business of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetoric . One passage , however , seems not ...
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... reputation . His wish for retirement we can easily believe to be undissembled ; a man harassed in one kingdom , and persecuted in another , who , after a course of business that employed all his days and half his nights , in cyphering ...
... reputation . His wish for retirement we can easily believe to be undissembled ; a man harassed in one kingdom , and persecuted in another , who , after a course of business that employed all his days and half his nights , in cyphering ...
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... reputation was high , they had undoubtedly more imitators than time has left behind . Their immediate successors of whom any remembrance can be said to remain , were Suckling , Waller , Denham , Cowley , Cleiveland , and Milton . Denham ...
... reputation was high , they had undoubtedly more imitators than time has left behind . Their immediate successors of whom any remembrance can be said to remain , were Suckling , Waller , Denham , Cowley , Cleiveland , and Milton . Denham ...
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... Odes have so long enjoyed the highest degree of poetical reputation , that I am not willing to dismiss them with unabated censure ; and surely , though the mode of their composition be erroneous , yet many parts deserve at 34 COWLEY .
... Odes have so long enjoyed the highest degree of poetical reputation , that I am not willing to dismiss them with unabated censure ; and surely , though the mode of their composition be erroneous , yet many parts deserve at 34 COWLEY .
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