The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volumen1W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... easily discovered ; and I am not without suspicion that some of Dryden's works are placed in wrong years . I have followed Langbaine , as the best authority for his plays : and if I shall hereafter obtain a more correct chronology ...
... easily discovered ; and I am not without suspicion that some of Dryden's works are placed in wrong years . I have followed Langbaine , as the best authority for his plays : and if I shall hereafter obtain a more correct chronology ...
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... easily believe to be undissembled : -a man harassed in one kingdom , and persecuted in another , who , after a course of business that employed all his days and half his nights , in cyphering and decyphering , comes to his own country ...
... easily believe to be undissembled : -a man harassed in one kingdom , and persecuted in another , who , after a course of business that employed all his days and half his nights , in cyphering and decyphering , comes to his own country ...
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... easily find his way back , when solitude should grow tedious . His retreat was at first but slenderly accommodated ; yet he soon obtained , by the interest of the earl of St. Alban's and the duke of Buckingham , such a lease of the ...
... easily find his way back , when solitude should grow tedious . His retreat was at first but slenderly accommodated ; yet he soon obtained , by the interest of the earl of St. Alban's and the duke of Buckingham , such a lease of the ...
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... easily irritated , was obliged to pass over many transactions in general expressions , and to leave curiosity often unsatisfied . What he did not tell , cannot , however , now be known ; I must therefore recom- mend the perusal of his ...
... easily irritated , was obliged to pass over many transactions in general expressions , and to leave curiosity often unsatisfied . What he did not tell , cannot , however , now be known ; I must therefore recom- mend the perusal of his ...
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... easily understood without ex- amples ; and I have therefore collected instances of the modes of writing by which this species of poets ( for poets they were called by themselves and their admirers ) was eminently distinguished . As the ...
... easily understood without ex- amples ; and I have therefore collected instances of the modes of writing by which this species of poets ( for poets they were called by themselves and their admirers ) was eminently distinguished . As the ...
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Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volumen1 Samuel Johnson Vista completa - 1868 |
Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, with Critical ..., Volumen1 Samuel Johnson Vista completa - 1861 |
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