From Shakespeare to Pope: An Inquiry Into the Causes and Phenomena of the Rise of Classical Poetry in England |
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... Commons , or than in the political results of that Queen's partiality for her fatherland . In point of fact , Drayton's poem would have been almost as charming and almost as popular if Mortimer had been named Amandus and the Queen ...
... Commons , or than in the political results of that Queen's partiality for her fatherland . In point of fact , Drayton's poem would have been almost as charming and almost as popular if Mortimer had been named Amandus and the Queen ...
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... Commons in those days , and no questions asked . But the poet's tomb in Beaconsfield Church- yard , the inscription on which was carefully com- piled by Rymer the historiographer from docu- ments placed in his hands by the family ...
... Commons in those days , and no questions asked . But the poet's tomb in Beaconsfield Church- yard , the inscription on which was carefully com- piled by Rymer the historiographer from docu- ments placed in his hands by the family ...
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... Commons out of the journals of the House . He said that he hoped he might hear no more about liberty of speech . At dinner - time Edmund Waller , coming into court , found the King seated at table , with the Bishops of Winchester and ...
... Commons out of the journals of the House . He said that he hoped he might hear no more about liberty of speech . At dinner - time Edmund Waller , coming into court , found the King seated at table , with the Bishops of Winchester and ...
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... Commons for another of the local Buckinghamshire boroughs , for Chipping Wycombe . Parliament met its new King on this first occasion at Oxford , and the boyish Waller , not yet of age , was a sharer , no doubt , in the panic regarding ...
... Commons for another of the local Buckinghamshire boroughs , for Chipping Wycombe . Parliament met its new King on this first occasion at Oxford , and the boyish Waller , not yet of age , was a sharer , no doubt , in the panic regarding ...
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... Commons , leads me to believe that he was not a hypocrite or a traitor , in the worst sense , but a vacillating and trimming creature , dowered , like all poets , with a mixture of 1 farsightedness and nearsightedness which was fatal to ...
... Commons , leads me to believe that he was not a hypocrite or a traitor , in the worst sense , but a vacillating and trimming creature , dowered , like all poets , with a mixture of 1 farsightedness and nearsightedness which was fatal to ...
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