Enthusiast in Wit: A Portrait of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, 1647-1680Routledge and Paul, 1962 - 246 pages |
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... tell him that he was out of favour with Dryden , pre- sumably because of the criticism in An Allusion to Horace . In his reply Rochester writes as follows : ' You write me word , That I'm out of favour with a certain Poet , whom I have ...
... tell him that he was out of favour with Dryden , pre- sumably because of the criticism in An Allusion to Horace . In his reply Rochester writes as follows : ' You write me word , That I'm out of favour with a certain Poet , whom I have ...
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... tell you , to admire ; And ev❜n without approving they desire . After this prelude Artemisa comes to the core of ... Telling the Knight that her Affairs require He , for some Hours , obsequiously retire . I think she was asham'd he shou ...
... tell you , to admire ; And ev❜n without approving they desire . After this prelude Artemisa comes to the core of ... Telling the Knight that her Affairs require He , for some Hours , obsequiously retire . I think she was asham'd he shou ...
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... tell me ' , he asked , ' I cannot be saved , unless I believe things against my Reason , and then I must pay him for telling me of them ? ' These words are certainly Rochester's own ; they have the exact ring of the direct , hard ...
... tell me ' , he asked , ' I cannot be saved , unless I believe things against my Reason , and then I must pay him for telling me of them ? ' These words are certainly Rochester's own ; they have the exact ring of the direct , hard ...
Contents
Two THE CLIMATE OF OPINION | 22 |
Three VERY ACCEPTABLE IN A COURT | 32 |
Four THE UTOPIA OF GALLANTRY | 60 |
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