From Shakespeare to Pope: An Inquiry Into the Causes and Phenomena of the Rise of Classical Poetry in England |
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... volume of his History , and in leading me to MS . sources of seven- teenth - century information . It is wholly owing to his generosity that I have been enabled , in the second chapter of this volume , to give an account of Waller's ...
... volume of his History , and in leading me to MS . sources of seven- teenth - century information . It is wholly owing to his generosity that I have been enabled , in the second chapter of this volume , to give an account of Waller's ...
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... volume that I touch . It happens to be John Mason's tragedy of Muleasses the Turk , a mere bibliophile's curiosity . Nobody , so far as I know , from the date of its production to the present hour , has ever commended a word of it . I ...
... volume that I touch . It happens to be John Mason's tragedy of Muleasses the Turk , a mere bibliophile's curiosity . Nobody , so far as I know , from the date of its production to the present hour , has ever commended a word of it . I ...
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... volume . My readers will be forced , if they pay me the compliment of listening to me , to hear a very great deal about him , and to become tolerably intimate with his talents and his character . I need not here , at the close of a ...
... volume . My readers will be forced , if they pay me the compliment of listening to me , to hear a very great deal about him , and to become tolerably intimate with his talents and his character . I need not here , at the close of a ...
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... volumes , has found no trace of the poet's visit , and disbelieves in it . He points out that Waller makes blunders in his description , such as no real observer could make ; he takes the low cedars which covered the islands to be ...
... volumes , has found no trace of the poet's visit , and disbelieves in it . He points out that Waller makes blunders in his description , such as no real observer could make ; he takes the low cedars which covered the islands to be ...
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... volume , which he called Madagascar , from the opening poem . Endymion Porter , Suckling , Carew , and Habington , that is to say , the group of Marinist wits who specially flourished just then at the Court of Whitehall , ushered in ...
... volume , which he called Madagascar , from the opening poem . Endymion Porter , Suckling , Carew , and Habington , that is to say , the group of Marinist wits who specially flourished just then at the Court of Whitehall , ushered in ...
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