The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 193 pages of information about The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687).

The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 193 pages of information about The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687).
The History of the Plot, in Folio.  Quevedo’s Visions Englished, Octavo.  Erasmus’s Coloquies Eng..  Oct.  Seneca’s Morals, Oct.  Cicero’s Offices in English. The Guide to Eternity, in Twelves. Five Love Letters from a Nun to a Cave, &c. The Holy Cheat. Caveat to the Cavaliers. Plea for the Caveat and the Author.

Besides his indefatigable pains taken in writing the Observator, a Work, which for Vindicating the Royal Interest, and undeceiving the People, considering the corruption of the Times, of as great use and behoof as may be, mens minds having been before so poysoned by Fanatical Principles, that it is almost an Herculean Work to reduce them again by Reason, or as we may more properly say, to Reason.  Of which useful Work he hath done already Two large Volumes, and a Third almost compleated, his Pen being never weary in Service of his Country.

But should I go about to enumerate all the Works of this worthy Gentleman, I should run my self into an irrecoverable Labyrinth.  Nor is he less happy in his Verse than Prose, which for Elegancy of Language, and quickness of Invention, deservedly entitles him to the honour of a Poet; and therefore I shall forbear to write more of him, since what I can do upon that account, comes infinitely far short of his deservings.

FINIS.

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