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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... written by Samuel Johnson , an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet , playwright , essayist , moralist , critic , biographer , editor and lexicographer . The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography calls him ...
... written by Samuel Johnson , an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet , playwright , essayist , moralist , critic , biographer , editor and lexicographer . The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography calls him ...
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... writing these " Lives of the English Poets , " he had caused omissions to be made from the poems of Rochester , and was asked whether he would allow the printers to give all the verse of Prior . Boswell quoted a censure by Lord Hailes ...
... writing these " Lives of the English Poets , " he had caused omissions to be made from the poems of Rochester , and was asked whether he would allow the printers to give all the verse of Prior . Boswell quoted a censure by Lord Hailes ...
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... written , which , though nothing is said of their success , seem to have recommended him to some notice ; for his praise of the countess's music , and his lines on the famous picture of Seneca , afford reason for imagining that he was ...
... written , which , though nothing is said of their success , seem to have recommended him to some notice ; for his praise of the countess's music , and his lines on the famous picture of Seneca , afford reason for imagining that he was ...
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... 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 Prior, and answered by ...
... 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 Prior, and answered by ...
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... written in favour of the Elector of Bavaria . “ I shall expect , " says he , " with impatience , the return of Mr. Prior , whose conduct is very agreeable to me . " And while the Duke of Shrewsbury was still at Paris , Bolingbroke wrote ...
... written in favour of the Elector of Bavaria . “ I shall expect , " says he , " with impatience , the return of Mr. Prior , whose conduct is very agreeable to me . " And while the Duke of Shrewsbury was still at Paris , Bolingbroke wrote ...
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