Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope |
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... hero , and was accustomed to say that he praised others in compliance with the fashion , but that in celebrating King William he followed his inclination . To Prior , gratitude would dictate praise , which reason would not refuse ...
... hero , and was accustomed to say that he praised others in compliance with the fashion , but that in celebrating King William he followed his inclination . To Prior , gratitude would dictate praise , which reason would not refuse ...
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... heroes was entrusted to the Gazetteer . The nation in time grew weary of the war , and the queen grew weary of her ministers . The war was burdensome , and the ministers were insolent . Harley and his friends began to hope that they ...
... heroes was entrusted to the Gazetteer . The nation in time grew weary of the war , and the queen grew weary of her ministers . The war was burdensome , and the ministers were insolent . Harley and his friends began to hope that they ...
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... hero , and of William he will sing : - " The hovering winds on downy wings shall wait around , And catch , and waft to foreign lands , the flying sound . " It cannot but be proper to show what they shall have to catch and carry ...
... hero , and of William he will sing : - " The hovering winds on downy wings shall wait around , And catch , and waft to foreign lands , the flying sound . " It cannot but be proper to show what they shall have to catch and carry ...
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... hero , often sinks the man . " Of Blackmore it may be said that , as the poet sinks , the man rises ; the animadversions of Dennis , insolent and contemptuous as they were , raised in him no implacable resentment ; he and his critic ...
... hero , often sinks the man . " Of Blackmore it may be said that , as the poet sinks , the man rises ; the animadversions of Dennis , insolent and contemptuous as they were , raised in him no implacable resentment ; he and his critic ...
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... heroes , for I do not remember that by any author , serious or comical , I have found " Eliza " either praised or blamed . She " dropped , " as it seems , " dead - born from the press . " It is never mentioned , and was never seen by me ...
... heroes , for I do not remember that by any author , serious or comical , I have found " Eliza " either praised or blamed . She " dropped , " as it seems , " dead - born from the press . " It is never mentioned , and was never seen by me ...
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