Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1967 - English poetry |
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Page 340
... wish the epitaph to close , but that I should be unwilling to lose the two next lines , which yet are dearly bought if they cannot be retained without the four that follow them . X On Mr. ELIJAH FENTON . At Easthampsted in Berkshire ...
... wish the epitaph to close , but that I should be unwilling to lose the two next lines , which yet are dearly bought if they cannot be retained without the four that follow them . X On Mr. ELIJAH FENTON . At Easthampsted in Berkshire ...
Page 394
... wish it well enough to wish it were in rhyme . The School - mistress , of which I know not what claim it has to stand among the Moral Works , is surely the most pleasing of Shenstone's performances . The adoption of a particular style ...
... wish it well enough to wish it were in rhyme . The School - mistress , of which I know not what claim it has to stand among the Moral Works , is surely the most pleasing of Shenstone's performances . The adoption of a particular style ...
Page 435
... wish of , ' Dear Sir , ' Your greatly obliged Friend , ' HERBERT CROFT , Jun . ' Lincoln's Inn , Sept. 1780. ' ' P.S. This account of Young was seen by you in manuscript you know , Sir ; and , though I could not prevail on you to make ...
... wish of , ' Dear Sir , ' Your greatly obliged Friend , ' HERBERT CROFT , Jun . ' Lincoln's Inn , Sept. 1780. ' ' P.S. This account of Young was seen by you in manuscript you know , Sir ; and , though I could not prevail on you to make ...
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