The book The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) was written by author Winstanley William Here you can read free online of The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) a good or bad book?
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Here did he begin and finish the Translation of so manyAuthors, that considering their Voluminousness, a Man would think hehad done nothing else; which made one thus to descant on him. _Holland_ with his Translations doth so fill us, He will not let _Suetonius_ be _Tranquillus_. Now as he was a Translator of many Authors, so was he very Faithful inwhat he did; But what commended him most in the Praise of Posterity, was his Translating _Cambdens Britania_, a Translation more then aTranslatio...n: he adding to it many more notes then what were first inthe Lattin Edition, but such as were done by Mr. _Cambden_ in his Lifetime, discoverable in the former part with Astericks in the Margent;But these Additions with some Antiquaries obtain not equalAuthenticalness with what was set forth by Mr. _Cambden_ himself. Some of these Books (notwithstanding their Gigantick bigness) he wrotewith one Pen, where he himself thus pleasantly versified. With one sole Pen, I writ this Book, Made of a Gray Goose quill: A Pen it was when I it took, And a Pen I leave it still.
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