Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poetse-artnow, 07 մյս, 2021 թ. - 927 էջ "Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets" in 2 volumes is one of the best-known works by William Howitt, first published in 1847, that features the biographical accounts of the most distinguished literary figures among the British. Contents: Geoffrey Chaucer Edmund Spenser Shakespeare Abraham Cowley John Milton Samuel Butler John Dryden Joseph Addison John Gay Alexander Pope Dean Swift James Thomson William Shenstone Chatterton Thomas Gray Oliver Goldsmith Robert Burns William Cowper Mrs. Tighe John Keats Percy Bysshe Shelley Lord Byron George Crabbe James Hogg Samuel Taylor Coleridge Felicia Hemans L. E. L. Sir Walter Scott Thomas Campbell Robert Southey Joanna Baillie William Wordsworth James Montgomery Walter Savage Landor Leigh Hunt Samuel Rogers Thomas Moore Ebenezer Elliott John Wilson Waller Bryan Procter Alfred Tennyson Concluding Remarks |
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... road, gave to its possessors a considerable degree of authority. When it was originally built is uncertain, but, from a manuscript preserved in the Cottonian Library, it appears that it belonged to Walter Abberbury, who paid C ...
... road, gave to its possessors a considerable degree of authority. When it was originally built is uncertain, but, from a manuscript preserved in the Cottonian Library, it appears that it belonged to Walter Abberbury, who paid C ...
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... road. Wagons belonging to this establishment are going in and out, and gigs and chaises are drawn up on the further side of the inn. There are life and trade here still; but the antiquity and dignity of the ancient Tabard are broken up ...
... road. Wagons belonging to this establishment are going in and out, and gigs and chaises are drawn up on the further side of the inn. There are life and trade here still; but the antiquity and dignity of the ancient Tabard are broken up ...
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... road to preferment, and does not appear to have been backward to walk diligently in it. Leicester and Sidney, near kinsmen as they were, were just the two men of the whole kingdom to push the fortunes of a poet. With this early and ...
... road to preferment, and does not appear to have been backward to walk diligently in it. Leicester and Sidney, near kinsmen as they were, were just the two men of the whole kingdom to push the fortunes of a poet. With this early and ...
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... road leading from Hammersmith suspension bridge to Wimbledon. It is an old estate, and in Cowley's time must have been tolerably solitary. Since then the road just mentioned has been made across the estate, and an inn built close to its ...
... road leading from Hammersmith suspension bridge to Wimbledon. It is an old estate, and in Cowley's time must have been tolerably solitary. Since then the road just mentioned has been made across the estate, and an inn built close to its ...
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... road down to the house, on one hand giving a level prospect over the meadows toward Hammersmith, and on the other bounded with the tall hedge and thick trees inclosing the park. The whole, with its rich meadow land, its old elms, and ...
... road down to the house, on one hand giving a level prospect over the meadows toward Hammersmith, and on the other bounded with the tall hedge and thick trees inclosing the park. The whole, with its rich meadow land, its old elms, and ...
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SAMUEL BUTLER | |
JOHN DRYDEN | |
JAMES THOMSON | |
WILLIAM SHENSTONE | |
CHATTERTON | |
GRAY AT STOKEPOGIS | |
OLIVER GOLDSMITH | |
ROBERT BURNS | |
WILLIAM COWPER | |
MRS TIGHE THE AUTHOR OF PSYCHE | |
JOSEPH ADDISON | |
JOHN | |
ALEXANDER POPE | |
DEAN SWIFT | |
STELLAS HOUSE | |
JOHN KEATS | |
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY | |
LORD BYRON | |
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Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Հատոր 1 William Howitt Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1847 |
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