Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1938 - English poetry |
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... supposed to have fallen , by his father's death , into the hands of his uncle , a vintner near Charing- cross , who sent him for some time to Dr. Busby at Westminster ; but , not intending to give him any education beyond that of the ...
... supposed to have fallen , by his father's death , into the hands of his uncle , a vintner near Charing- cross , who sent him for some time to Dr. Busby at Westminster ; but , not intending to give him any education beyond that of the ...
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... supposed to have learned obscenity from Wycherley , as he learned mythology from Waller . In his Jew of Venice , as Rowe remarks , the char- acter of Shylock is made comick , and we are prompted to laughter instead of detestation . It ...
... supposed to have learned obscenity from Wycherley , as he learned mythology from Waller . In his Jew of Venice , as Rowe remarks , the char- acter of Shylock is made comick , and we are prompted to laughter instead of detestation . It ...
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... supposed that a man of this character attained high dignities in the church ; but he still retained the friendship , and frequented the conversa- tion , of a very numerous and splendid set of acquaint- He died July 16 , 1736 , in the ...
... supposed that a man of this character attained high dignities in the church ; but he still retained the friendship , and frequented the conversa- tion , of a very numerous and splendid set of acquaint- He died July 16 , 1736 , in the ...
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