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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... wrote it , " says Boswell , " con amore , ' both from the early possession which that writer had taken of his mind , and from the pleasure which he must have felt in for ever silencing all attempts to lessen his poetical fame . . . . I ...
... wrote it , " says Boswell , " con amore , ' both from the early possession which that writer had taken of his mind , and from the pleasure which he must have felt in for ever silencing all attempts to lessen his poetical fame . . . . I ...
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... wrote the poem on the Deity , which stands first in his volume . It is the established practice of that College to send every year to the Earl of Exeter some poems upon sacred subjects , in acknowledgment of a benefaction enjoyed by ...
... wrote the poem on the Deity , which stands first in his volume . It is the established practice of that College to send every year to the Earl of Exeter some poems upon sacred subjects , in acknowledgment of a benefaction enjoyed by ...
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... wrote a long ode, which was presented to the king, by whom it was not likely to be ever read. In two years he was secretary to another embassy at the Treaty of Ryswick (in 1697), and next year had the same office at the court of France ...
... wrote a long ode, which was presented to the king, by whom it was not likely to be ever read. In two years he was secretary to another embassy at the Treaty of Ryswick (in 1697), and next year had the same office at the court of France ...
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... wrote to Prior thus : - " Monsieur de Torcy has a confidence in you ; make use of it , once for all , upon this occasion , and convince him thoroughly that we must give a different turn to our Parliament and our people according to ...
... wrote to Prior thus : - " Monsieur de Torcy has a confidence in you ; make use of it , once for all , upon this occasion , and convince him thoroughly that we must give a different turn to our Parliament and our people according to ...
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