Lives of the English PoetsCaasel et Cie, 1892 |
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Samuel Johnson. LIVES OF THE ENGLISH POETS . ADDISON . JOSEPH ADDISON was born on the 1st of May , 1672 , at Milston , of which his father , Lancelot Addison , was then rector , near Ambrosebury , in Wiltshire , and , appear ... POETS. ...
Samuel Johnson. LIVES OF THE ENGLISH POETS . ADDISON . JOSEPH ADDISON was born on the 1st of May , 1672 , at Milston , of which his father , Lancelot Addison , was then rector , near Ambrosebury , in Wiltshire , and , appear ... POETS. ...
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... poem on the Peace has the first place . He afterwards presented the collection to Boileau , who from that time conceived , " says Tickell , “ an opinion of the English genius for poetry . " Nothing is better known of Boileau than that ...
... poem on the Peace has the first place . He afterwards presented the collection to Boileau , who from that time conceived , " says Tickell , “ an opinion of the English genius for poetry . " Nothing is better known of Boileau than that ...
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... poem is a very confident and discriminate character of Spenser , whose work he had then never read ; so little ... poem to King William , with a rhyming introduction addressed to Lord Somers . King 10 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... poem is a very confident and discriminate character of Spenser , whose work he had then never read ; so little ... poem to King William , with a rhyming introduction addressed to Lord Somers . King 10 LIVES OF THE POETS .
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... poem since theÆneid . " Praise must not be too rigorously examined ; but the performance cannot be denied to be vigorous and elegant . Having yet no public employment , he obtained ( in 1699 ) a pension of three hundred pounds a year ...
... poem since theÆneid . " Praise must not be too rigorously examined ; but the performance cannot be denied to be vigorous and elegant . Having yet no public employment , he obtained ( in 1699 ) a pension of three hundred pounds a year ...
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... in the place of Commissioner of Appeals . In the following year he was at Hanover with Lord Halifax and the year after he was made Under Secretary 12 LIVES OF THE POETS . had he known that such collections had been made twice ...
... in the place of Commissioner of Appeals . In the following year he was at Hanover with Lord Halifax and the year after he was made Under Secretary 12 LIVES OF THE POETS . had he known that such collections had been made twice ...
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