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Page 141
... poet writ these two lines aboard some smack in a storm , and , being sea - sick , spewed up a good lump of clotted nonsense at once . ' Here is perhaps a sufficient specimen ; but as the pamphlet , though Dryden's , has never been ...
... poet writ these two lines aboard some smack in a storm , and , being sea - sick , spewed up a good lump of clotted nonsense at once . ' Here is perhaps a sufficient specimen ; but as the pamphlet , though Dryden's , has never been ...
Page 246
... poet may be easily supposed to want ; or that the attention of the poet and the player have been differently employed ; the one has been con- sidering thought , and the other action ; one has watched the heart , and the other ...
... poet may be easily supposed to want ; or that the attention of the poet and the player have been differently employed ; the one has been con- sidering thought , and the other action ; one has watched the heart , and the other ...
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... poet , and then a patron of poetry , had acquired the right of being a judge , was willing to hear some books while they were yet unpublished . Of this rehearsal Pope afterwards gave the following account . " The famous Lord Halifax was ...
... poet , and then a patron of poetry , had acquired the right of being a judge , was willing to hear some books while they were yet unpublished . Of this rehearsal Pope afterwards gave the following account . " The famous Lord Halifax was ...
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