Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope"Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope" by Samuel Johnson contains short biographies and critical appraisals of 52 poets, most of whom lived during the eighteenth century. These were arranged, approximately, by the date of death. Abraham Cowley, Sir John Denham, John Milton, Samuel Butler, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, Thomas Otway, Edmund Waller, and John Pomfret are just some of the honored poets. |
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... give a historical overview of old cookbooks and cuisine. Contents: "The Early Englishman and His Food Royal Feasts and Savage Pomp Cookery Books, part 1 Cookery Books, part 2, Select Extracts from an Early Receipt- Book Cookery Books ...
... give a historical overview of old cookbooks and cuisine. Contents: "The Early Englishman and His Food Royal Feasts and Savage Pomp Cookery Books, part 1 Cookery Books, part 2, Select Extracts from an Early Receipt- Book Cookery Books ...
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... give all the verse of Prior . Boswell quoted a censure by Lord Hailes of " those impure tales which will be the eternal opprobrium of their ingenious author . " Johnson replied , " Sir , Lord Hailes has forgot . There is nothing in ...
... give all the verse of Prior . Boswell quoted a censure by Lord Hailes of " those impure tales which will be the eternal opprobrium of their ingenious author . " Johnson replied , " Sir , Lord Hailes has forgot . There is nothing in ...
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... give him any education beyond that of the school , took him , when he was well advanced in literature , to his own house , where the Earl of Dorset , celebrated for patronage of genius , found him by chance , as Burnet relates , reading ...
... give him any education beyond that of the school , took him , when he was well advanced in literature , to his own house , where the Earl of Dorset , celebrated for patronage of genius , found him by chance , as Burnet relates , reading ...
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... give the best turn thy fertile brain will furnish thee with to the blunders of thy countrymen , who are not much better politicians than the French are poets . Soon after , the Duke of Shrewsbury went on a formal embassy to Paris . It ...
... give the best turn thy fertile brain will furnish thee with to the blunders of thy countrymen , who are not much better politicians than the French are poets . Soon after , the Duke of Shrewsbury went on a formal embassy to Paris . It ...
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... give such an account of it to the Commons as might merit favour; and that they now thought a stricter confinement necessary than to his own house. “Here,” says he, “Boscawen played the moralist, and Coningsby the Christian, but both ...
... give such an account of it to the Commons as might merit favour; and that they now thought a stricter confinement necessary than to his own house. “Here,” says he, “Boscawen played the moralist, and Coningsby the Christian, but both ...
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