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Denham

 

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(Sir) John Denham : The Sophy OR Poems and Translations

Sup'd alone. Read 'The Sophy', a play of Sir J Deham's.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile      Print: Book

  

Denham : [Poems]

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ... In poetry, ... most of Cowley, Butler, and Denham, Pope and Dryden often;...'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone      Print: Book

  

John Denham : Cooper's Hill

'Why sure every Person must acknowledge, that while [italics] he [Pope; end italics] is insulting [italics] his [end italics] Betters, his Ethic Epistles are little more than Lord [italics] Shaftesbury's [end italics] Rhapsody be rhym'd; his [italics] Windsor Forest [end italics] stollen [sic] from [italics] Cooper's [end italics] Hill; and his [italics] Eloisa and Abelard [end italics], the most beautiful Lines in it, taken from [italics] Milton's Il Penseroso [end italics]'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Print: Unknown

  

Major Denham, Captain Clapperton, and Doctor Oudney : Narrative of Travels in Northern and Central Africa in 1822, 1823, and 1834 [sic in source]

Wednesday, 5 April 1826: 'Read Clapperton's journey and Denman's [sic] into Bornou -- very entertaining and less botheration about mineralogy botany and so forth than usual. Pity Africa picks up so many brave men however.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

 

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