The lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Rivington, 1820 |
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... seems , in Prior , who probably knew that his own part of the performance was the best . He had not , however , much reason to complain ; for he came to London , and obtained such notice , that ( in 1691 ) he was sent to the Congress at ...
... seems , in Prior , who probably knew that his own part of the performance was the best . He had not , however , much reason to complain ; for he came to London , and obtained such notice , that ( in 1691 ) he was sent to the Congress at ...
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... seems to have been overpowered by their turbulence ; for he confesses that he signed what , if he had ever come before a legal judicature , he should have contradicted or explained away . The oath was , administered by Boscawen , a ...
... seems to have been overpowered by their turbulence ; for he confesses that he signed what , if he had ever come before a legal judicature , he should have contradicted or explained away . The oath was , administered by Boscawen , a ...
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... seem to have been right ; but his life was , it seems , irregular , negligent , and sensual . PRIOR has written with great variety ; and his variety has made him popular . He has tried all styles , from the grotesque to the solemn , and ...
... seem to have been right ; but his life was , it seems , irregular , negligent , and sensual . PRIOR has written with great variety ; and his variety has made him popular . He has tried all styles , from the grotesque to the solemn , and ...
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... seems never to have had a plan . Prior appears not to have pro posed to himself any drift or design , but to have written the casual dictates of the present moment . What Horace said , when he imitated Lucilius , might be said of Butler ...
... seems never to have had a plan . Prior appears not to have pro posed to himself any drift or design , but to have written the casual dictates of the present moment . What Horace said , when he imitated Lucilius , might be said of Butler ...
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... seems the effort of strug- gle and of toil . He has many vigorous but few happy lines ; he has every thing by purchase , and nothing by gift ; he had no nightly visitations of the muse , no infusions of sentiment or felicities of fancy ...
... seems the effort of strug- gle and of toil . He has many vigorous but few happy lines ; he has every thing by purchase , and nothing by gift ; he had no nightly visitations of the muse , no infusions of sentiment or felicities of fancy ...
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