Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of English Authors, from the Earliest to the Present Times, Volume 1Robert Chambers J.B. Lippincott and Company, 1856 - Authors, English |
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... Hudibras , 347 Religion of Hudibras , 348 POETS . Personal Appearance of Hudibras , 348 ABRAHAM COWLEY , 312 The Elephant in the Moon , 349 On the Death of Mr Crashaw , Heaven and Hell , 314 Miscellaneous Thoughts , 352 314 To his ...
... Hudibras , 347 Religion of Hudibras , 348 POETS . Personal Appearance of Hudibras , 348 ABRAHAM COWLEY , 312 The Elephant in the Moon , 349 On the Death of Mr Crashaw , Heaven and Hell , 314 Miscellaneous Thoughts , 352 314 To his ...
Page 147
... popularity while living , and which Butler partly imitated in Hudibras , Cleve- land wrote some love verses containing morsels of genuine poetry , amidst a mass of affected metaphors and 147 POETS . JOHN CLEVELAND . ENGLISH LITERATURE .
... popularity while living , and which Butler partly imitated in Hudibras , Cleve- land wrote some love verses containing morsels of genuine poetry , amidst a mass of affected metaphors and 147 POETS . JOHN CLEVELAND . ENGLISH LITERATURE .
Page 312
... Hudibras ; and Dryden his matchless satire and versification . Flowly , London in the year 1618 , and was the posthumous son of a respectable grocer . His mother had influence enough to procure admission for him as a king's scholar at ...
... Hudibras ; and Dryden his matchless satire and versification . Flowly , London in the year 1618 , and was the posthumous son of a respectable grocer . His mother had influence enough to procure admission for him as a king's scholar at ...
Page 345
... Hudibras , a cavalier burlesque of the extravagant ideas and rigid manners of the English Puritans of the civil war and commonwealth . Borne up by a felicity of versification and an intensity of wit never excelled in our literature ...
... Hudibras , a cavalier burlesque of the extravagant ideas and rigid manners of the English Puritans of the civil war and commonwealth . Borne up by a felicity of versification and an intensity of wit never excelled in our literature ...
Page 346
... Hudibras , and for this Butler has been accused of a breach of the laws of hospi- tality : we are not disposed decidedly to rebut the charge ; but we think it may in candour be allowed to hang in doubt , until we know something more ...
... Hudibras , and for this Butler has been accused of a breach of the laws of hospi- tality : we are not disposed decidedly to rebut the charge ; but we think it may in candour be allowed to hang in doubt , until we know something more ...
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