Johnson's Lives of the Poets, Том 3G. Bell and sons, 1890 |
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... poetry and oratory . Perrault sup- ported Fontenelle , and claimed , moreover , for his own age and for the French Academy , the superiority in painting and architecture . This doctrine was as unpalatable to English scholars as it had ...
... poetry and oratory . Perrault sup- ported Fontenelle , and claimed , moreover , for his own age and for the French Academy , the superiority in painting and architecture . This doctrine was as unpalatable to English scholars as it had ...
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... poetry pub- lished by Lintot , commonly called " Pope's Miscellanies , ” many of his early pieces were inserted . Pope and Broome were to be yet more closely connected . When the success of the " Iliad " gave encouragement to a version ...
... poetry pub- lished by Lintot , commonly called " Pope's Miscellanies , ” many of his early pieces were inserted . Pope and Broome were to be yet more closely connected . When the success of the " Iliad " gave encouragement to a version ...
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... poetry by the perusal of Ogylby's " " Homer , " and Sandys's 1 Ruffhead's Life of Pope , p . 11. Spence gives the name " Banister , ” ed . Singer , pp . 192 , 283 . John Ogilby ( 1600-1676 ) , of a good Edinburgh family , but so reduced ...
... poetry by the perusal of Ogylby's " " Homer , " and Sandys's 1 Ruffhead's Life of Pope , p . 11. Spence gives the name " Banister , ” ed . Singer , pp . 192 , 283 . John Ogilby ( 1600-1676 ) , of a good Edinburgh family , but so reduced ...
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... poetry owed much of its present beauty to his translations . Sandys very rarely attempted original composition . From the care of Taverner , under whom his proficiency was considerable , he was removed to a school at Twyford near ...
... poetry owed much of its present beauty to his translations . Sandys very rarely attempted original composition . From the care of Taverner , under whom his proficiency was considerable , he was removed to a school at Twyford near ...
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... poetry . He tried all styles , and many subjects . He wrote a comedy , a tragedy , an epick poem , with pane- gyricks on all the princes of Europe ; and , as he con- fesses , thought himself the greatest genius that ever was . Self ...
... poetry . He tried all styles , and many subjects . He wrote a comedy , a tragedy , an epick poem , with pane- gyricks on all the princes of Europe ; and , as he con- fesses , thought himself the greatest genius that ever was . Self ...
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