The lives of the most eminent English poetsJ. Buckland, 1787 |
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... whofe pregnancy of imagination and elegance of language have defervedly fet him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has ...
... whofe pregnancy of imagination and elegance of language have defervedly fet him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has ...
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... whofe acquaintance all his contemporaries feem to have been ambitious ; and Naufragium Joculare , " a comedy written in Latin , but without due attention to the ancient models ; for it is not loose verfe , but mere profe . It was ...
... whofe acquaintance all his contemporaries feem to have been ambitious ; and Naufragium Joculare , " a comedy written in Latin , but without due attention to the ancient models ; for it is not loose verfe , but mere profe . It was ...
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... preferved in " Mifcellanea Aulica , " a collection of papers published by Brown . These letters , being written like thofe of other men whofe mind is more on on things than words , contribute no otherwife to his 10 COWLEY .
... preferved in " Mifcellanea Aulica , " a collection of papers published by Brown . These letters , being written like thofe of other men whofe mind is more on on things than words , contribute no otherwife to his 10 COWLEY .
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... whofe hands he was might free him from confinement , he did what no law of fociety prohibits . The man whofe mifcarriage in a juft caufe has put him in the power of his enemy may , without any vio- lation of his integrity , regain his ...
... whofe hands he was might free him from confinement , he did what no law of fociety prohibits . The man whofe mifcarriage in a juft caufe has put him in the power of his enemy may , without any vio- lation of his integrity , regain his ...
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... whofe manner refembled that of Donne more in the ruggedness of his lines than in the caft of his fentiments . When their reputation was high , they had undoubt- edly more imitators , than time has left behind . Their immediate ...
... whofe manner refembled that of Donne more in the ruggedness of his lines than in the caft of his fentiments . When their reputation was high , they had undoubt- edly more imitators , than time has left behind . Their immediate ...
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