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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... soon made Commissioner of Trade . This year ( 1700 ) produced one of his longest and most splendid compositions , the " Carmen Seculare , " in which he exhausts all his powers of celebration . I mean not to accuse him of flattery ; he ...
... soon made Commissioner of Trade . This year ( 1700 ) produced one of his longest and most splendid compositions , the " Carmen Seculare , " in which he exhausts all his powers of celebration . I mean not to accuse him of flattery ; he ...
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... 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 afterwards (in 1706) ...
... 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 afterwards (in 1706) ...
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... soon released. The negotiation was begun at Prior's house, where the queen's ministers met Mesnager (September 20, 1711), and entered privately upon the great business. The importance of Prior appears from the mention made of him by St ...
... soon released. The negotiation was begun at Prior's house, where the queen's ministers met Mesnager (September 20, 1711), and entered privately upon the great business. The importance of Prior appears from the mention made of him by St ...
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... Soon after , the Duke of Shrewsbury went on a formal embassy to Paris . It is related by Boyer that the intention was to have joined Prior in the commission , but that Shrewsbury refused to be associated with a man so meanly born ...
... Soon after , the Duke of Shrewsbury went on a formal embassy to Paris . It is related by Boyer that the intention was to have joined Prior in the commission , but that Shrewsbury refused to be associated with a man so meanly born ...
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... soon after discharged. He had now his liberty, but he had nothing else. Whatever the profit of his employments might have been, he had always spent it; and at the age of fifty-three was, with all his abilities, in danger of penury ...
... soon after discharged. He had now his liberty, but he had nothing else. Whatever the profit of his employments might have been, he had always spent it; and at the age of fifty-three was, with all his abilities, in danger of penury ...
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