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... epistle to Boileau . He published , soon afterwards , a volume of poems , with the encomiastic character of his deceased patron , the Earl of Dorset . It began with the College exercise , and ended with the " Nutbrown Maid . " The ...
... epistle to Boileau . He published , soon afterwards , a volume of poems , with the encomiastic character of his deceased patron , the Earl of Dorset . It began with the College exercise , and ended with the " Nutbrown Maid . " The ...
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... epistle to Boileau is not so happy . The " Poems to the King now perused only by young students , who read merely that they may learn to write ; and of the " Carmen Seculare , " I cannot but suspect that I might praise or censure it by ...
... epistle to Boileau is not so happy . The " Poems to the King now perused only by young students , who read merely that they may learn to write ; and of the " Carmen Seculare , " I cannot but suspect that I might praise or censure it by ...
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... Epistle of Sappho to Phaon . " from Ovid , to complete the version , which was before imperfect , and wrote some other small pieces , which he afterwards printed . He sometimes imitated the English poets , and professed to have written ...
... Epistle of Sappho to Phaon . " from Ovid , to complete the version , which was before imperfect , and wrote some other small pieces , which he afterwards printed . He sometimes imitated the English poets , and professed to have written ...
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... Epistle from " Eloisa to Abelard , " I do not know the date . His first inclination to attempt a composition of that tender kind arose , as Mr. Savage told me , from his perusal of Prior's " Nut - brown Maid . " How much he has ...
... Epistle from " Eloisa to Abelard , " I do not know the date . His first inclination to attempt a composition of that tender kind arose , as Mr. Savage told me , from his perusal of Prior's " Nut - brown Maid . " How much he has ...
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... Epistle to Lord Bathurst " ( 1733 ) on the " Use of Riches , " a piece on which he declared great labour to have been bestowed . Into this poem some hints are historically thrown , and some known characters are introduced , with others ...
... Epistle to Lord Bathurst " ( 1733 ) on the " Use of Riches , " a piece on which he declared great labour to have been bestowed . Into this poem some hints are historically thrown , and some known characters are introduced , with others ...
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