The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations of Their Works, Volume 2Derby & Jackson, 1857 - English poetry |
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... himself . - JACOB : Pref . to Poetical Register . Jacob states ( p . 41 ) that " Bardsa was part of the estate of Sir John Lewis , his great - uncle by his mother's side , " To doubt whether a man of eminence has told the 15.
... himself . - JACOB : Pref . to Poetical Register . Jacob states ( p . 41 ) that " Bardsa was part of the estate of Sir John Lewis , his great - uncle by his mother's side , " To doubt whether a man of eminence has told the 15.
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... told the truth about his own birth , is , in appearance , to be very deficient in candour ; yet nobody can live long without knowing that falsehoods of con- venience or vanity , falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues ...
... told the truth about his own birth , is , in appearance , to be very deficient in candour ; yet nobody can live long without knowing that falsehoods of con- venience or vanity , falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues ...
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... told that they were three very necessary men , Ford , Broome , and Fenton . The name in the play , which Pope restored to Brook , was then Broome . It was perhaps after this play that he undertook to revise the punctuation of Milton's ...
... told that they were three very necessary men , Ford , Broome , and Fenton . The name in the play , which Pope restored to Brook , was then Broome . It was perhaps after this play that he undertook to revise the punctuation of Milton's ...
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... told him , as she said , that he would " lie a - bed and be fed with a spoon . " This , however , was not the worst that might have been prognosti- cated ; for Pope says , in his Letters , " that " he died of indolence ; " but his ...
... told him , as she said , that he would " lie a - bed and be fed with a spoon . " This , however , was not the worst that might have been prognosti- cated ; for Pope says , in his Letters , " that " he died of indolence ; " but his ...
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... told ) or with less ostentation yielded up his Being . The great Modesty wch you know was natural to him , and ye great Contempt he had for all Sorts of Vanity & Parade , never appeared more than in his last moments : He had a conscious ...
... told ) or with less ostentation yielded up his Being . The great Modesty wch you know was natural to him , and ye great Contempt he had for all Sorts of Vanity & Parade , never appeared more than in his last moments : He had a conscious ...
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