The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations of Their Works, Volume 2Derby & Jackson, 1857 - English poetry |
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... pleased , against their will . But though taste is obstinate , it is very variable , and time often failed . " prevails when arguments have Queen Mary conferred upon both those plays the honour of her presence ; and when she died , soon ...
... pleased , against their will . But though taste is obstinate , it is very variable , and time often failed . " prevails when arguments have Queen Mary conferred upon both those plays the honour of her presence ; and when she died , soon ...
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... pleased unless they are thus entertained from the stage . And there are among these writers some who think they might have risen to the highest dignities in other professions , had they employed their wit in those ways . - Preface to ...
... pleased unless they are thus entertained from the stage . And there are among these writers some who think they might have risen to the highest dignities in other professions , had they employed their wit in those ways . - Preface to ...
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... pleased with the honour ; and when he became acquainted with Gay , found such attractions in his manners and conversation , that he seems to have received him into his inmost confidence ; and a friendship was formed between them which ...
... pleased with the honour ; and when he became acquainted with Gay , found such attractions in his manners and conversation , that he seems to have received him into his inmost confidence ; and a friendship was formed between them which ...
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... pleased that the King has given her so agreeable a command as forbidding her the Court , where she never came for diversion , but to bestow a very great civility on the King and Queen . She hopes that by so unprecedented an order as ...
... pleased that the King has given her so agreeable a command as forbidding her the Court , where she never came for diversion , but to bestow a very great civility on the King and Queen . She hopes that by so unprecedented an order as ...
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... pleased to find himself imitated in six lines , which , though they begin with nonsense and end with dulness , excited in the young author a rapture of acknowledgement : " In numbers such as Waller's self might use . ' 193 1 The poet's ...
... pleased to find himself imitated in six lines , which , though they begin with nonsense and end with dulness , excited in the young author a rapture of acknowledgement : " In numbers such as Waller's self might use . ' 193 1 The poet's ...
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