The Works of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 2J. Moore, 1793 - English poetry |
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... kind . would have been much lefs injurious , if it had pleafed the author to put forth fome of my writings under his own name , rather than his own under mine : he had been in that a more pardonable plagiary , and had done lefs wrong by ...
... kind . would have been much lefs injurious , if it had pleafed the author to put forth fome of my writings under his own name , rather than his own under mine : he had been in that a more pardonable plagiary , and had done lefs wrong by ...
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... kind of death to the Mufes , and a real literal quitting of this world ; fo , methinks , I may make a jult claim to the undoubted privilege of de- ceased poets , which is , to be read with more favour than the living ; " Tanti eft ut ...
... kind of death to the Mufes , and a real literal quitting of this world ; fo , methinks , I may make a jult claim to the undoubted privilege of de- ceased poets , which is , to be read with more favour than the living ; " Tanti eft ut ...
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... kind ; as the Romanifts uncharitably do of Beza , for a few lafcivious fonnets compofed by him in his youth . It is not in this fenfe that poefy is faid to be a kind of painting ; it is not the picture of the poet , but of things and ...
... kind ; as the Romanifts uncharitably do of Beza , for a few lafcivious fonnets compofed by him in his youth . It is not in this fenfe that poefy is faid to be a kind of painting ; it is not the picture of the poet , but of things and ...
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... kind . They are all but the cold - meats of the ancients , new - heated , and new fet forth . I do not at all wonder that the old poets made fome rich crops out of thefe grounds ; the heart of the foil was not then wrought out with ...
... kind . They are all but the cold - meats of the ancients , new - heated , and new fet forth . I do not at all wonder that the old poets made fome rich crops out of thefe grounds ; the heart of the foil was not then wrought out with ...
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... kind Philocrates , He chears his friend , bidding him banifh fear , And by fome letter his griev'd mind appease , And fhew her that which to her friendly ear Time gave no leave to tell : and thus his quill Declares to her the abfent ...
... kind Philocrates , He chears his friend , bidding him banifh fear , And by fome letter his griev'd mind appease , And fhew her that which to her friendly ear Time gave no leave to tell : and thus his quill Declares to her the abfent ...
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