The lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Rivington, 1820 |
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... sufficiently ostentatious , but were explained by inscriptions so arrogant , that Boileau and Ra cine thought it necessary to make , them more simple . He was in the following year at Loo with the King ; from whom , after a long ...
... sufficiently ostentatious , but were explained by inscriptions so arrogant , that Boileau and Ra cine thought it necessary to make , them more simple . He was in the following year at Loo with the King ; from whom , after a long ...
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... sufficiently licentious ; the paraphrase on St. Paul's Exhortation to Charity is eminently beautiful , " Alma " is written in professed imitation of " Hu- dibras , " and has at least one accidental resemblance : " Hudibras " wants a ...
... sufficiently licentious ; the paraphrase on St. Paul's Exhortation to Charity is eminently beautiful , " Alma " is written in professed imitation of " Hu- dibras , " and has at least one accidental resemblance : " Hudibras " wants a ...
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... sufficiently diversified , but from the continued tenor of the narration ; in which Solomon relates the succes sive vicissitudes of his own mind , without the in- tervention of any other speaker , or the mention of any other agent ...
... sufficiently diversified , but from the continued tenor of the narration ; in which Solomon relates the succes sive vicissitudes of his own mind , without the in- tervention of any other speaker , or the mention of any other agent ...
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... sufficient conso- nance , and from the admission of broken lines into his " Solomon ; " but perhaps he thought , like Cow- ley , that hemistichs ought to be admitted into he roic poetry . He had apparently such rectitude of judgment as ...
... sufficient conso- nance , and from the admission of broken lines into his " Solomon ; " but perhaps he thought , like Cow- ley , that hemistichs ought to be admitted into he roic poetry . He had apparently such rectitude of judgment as ...
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... sufficient learning ; with diction vehement and pointed , though often vulgar and incorrect ; with unconquerable pertinacity ; with wit in the highest degree keen and sarcastic ; and with all those pow ers exalted and invigorated by ...
... sufficient learning ; with diction vehement and pointed , though often vulgar and incorrect ; with unconquerable pertinacity ; with wit in the highest degree keen and sarcastic ; and with all those pow ers exalted and invigorated by ...
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