Rochester and other literary rakes of the court of Charles ii, by the author of 'The life of sir Kenelm Digby'. |
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... Poems - His Estimate of Women - Of the Clergy - An Atrocious Poem - Verses to the Queen - Mother - Rochester's Inconstancy - Colloquies of Erasmus - Oldham b 259 278 CHAPTER XIX . Rochester's Dissipation Tells its Tale - Very CONTENTS ix.
... Poems - His Estimate of Women - Of the Clergy - An Atrocious Poem - Verses to the Queen - Mother - Rochester's Inconstancy - Colloquies of Erasmus - Oldham b 259 278 CHAPTER XIX . Rochester's Dissipation Tells its Tale - Very CONTENTS ix.
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... verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so imperfect , that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables . " Johnson makes these remarks in his ...
... verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so imperfect , that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables . " Johnson makes these remarks in his ...
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... verses like those of Cowley stand " the trial of the finger better than of the ear , " he did not , like the ... verse of their contemporaries , and even of their successors , the works of Shakespeare and Milton appear to have had but ...
... verses like those of Cowley stand " the trial of the finger better than of the ear , " he did not , like the ... verse of their contemporaries , and even of their successors , the works of Shakespeare and Milton appear to have had but ...
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... verse ; but they more than succeeded in imitating his immorality and his coarseness . It is no aim of the present writer to decry the beauties of Ovid : even Shakespeare and Milton are usually believed to have been influenced by them ...
... verse ; but they more than succeeded in imitating his immorality and his coarseness . It is no aim of the present writer to decry the beauties of Ovid : even Shakespeare and Milton are usually believed to have been influenced by them ...
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... verses of Rochester might have been improved by either tea or coffee . In the matter Enough of drinks for the present . of food , the upper classes in the seventeenth century were better off than in certain other respects ; al- though ...
... verses of Rochester might have been improved by either tea or coffee . In the matter Enough of drinks for the present . of food , the upper classes in the seventeenth century were better off than in certain other respects ; al- though ...
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