Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1968 - English poetry |
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Page 217
... wrote very early as well as he ever wrote ; and the performances of youth have many favourers , be- cause the authors yet lay no claim to publick honours . and are therefore not considered as rivals by the dis- STEPNEY 217.
... wrote very early as well as he ever wrote ; and the performances of youth have many favourers , be- cause the authors yet lay no claim to publick honours . and are therefore not considered as rivals by the dis- STEPNEY 217.
Page 239
... wrote , and made no difficulty of de- claring that he wrote , only to please , and who perhaps knew that by his dexterity of versification he was more likely to excel others in rhyme than without it , very rapidly adopted his master's ...
... wrote , and made no difficulty of de- claring that he wrote , only to please , and who perhaps knew that by his dexterity of versification he was more likely to excel others in rhyme than without it , very rapidly adopted his master's ...
Page 369
... wrote Mully of Mountown , a poem ; by which , though fanciful readers in the pride of sagacity have given it a political interpretation , was meant originally no more than it expressed , as it was dictated only by the author's delight ...
... wrote Mully of Mountown , a poem ; by which , though fanciful readers in the pride of sagacity have given it a political interpretation , was meant originally no more than it expressed , as it was dictated only by the author's delight ...
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