Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1964 - Poets, English |
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Page 74
... mention of Usher , that he had now adopted the puritanical savageness of manners . His next work was , The Reason of Church Government urged against Prelacy , by Mr. John Milton , 1642. In this book he discovers , not with ostentatious ...
... mention of Usher , that he had now adopted the puritanical savageness of manners . His next work was , The Reason of Church Government urged against Prelacy , by Mr. John Milton , 1642. In this book he discovers , not with ostentatious ...
Page 281
... mentions his enemies . He degrades his own dignity by shewing that he was affected by their censures , and gives ... mention in the preface of his Fables . To the censure of Collier , whose remarks may be rather termed admoni- tions ...
... mentions his enemies . He degrades his own dignity by shewing that he was affected by their censures , and gives ... mention in the preface of his Fables . To the censure of Collier , whose remarks may be rather termed admoni- tions ...
Page 287
... mention with reverence as a critick and a poet . DRYDEN may be properly considered as the father of English criticism , as the writer who first taught us to determine upon principles the merit of composition . Of our former poets , the ...
... mention with reverence as a critick and a poet . DRYDEN may be properly considered as the father of English criticism , as the writer who first taught us to determine upon principles the merit of composition . Of our former poets , the ...
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