Lives of the English Poets: Addison, Savage [and] SwiftCassell, Limited, 1901 - 192 pages |
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... afterwards of Mr. Taylor at Salisbury . Not to name the school or the masters of men illus- trious for literature , is a kind of historical fraud , by which honest fame is injuriously diminished : I would therefore trace him through the ...
... afterwards of Mr. Taylor at Salisbury . Not to name the school or the masters of men illus- trious for literature , is a kind of historical fraud , by which honest fame is injuriously diminished : I would therefore trace him through the ...
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... afterwards presented the collection to Boileau , who from that time " conceived , " says Tickell , " an opinion of the English genius for poetry . " Nothing is better known of Boileau than that he had an injudicious and peevish contempt ...
... afterwards presented the collection to Boileau , who from that time " conceived , " says Tickell , " an opinion of the English genius for poetry . " Nothing is better known of Boileau than that he had an injudicious and peevish contempt ...
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... afterwards too weak for the malignity of faction . In this poem is a very confident and discriminate character of Spenser , whose work he had then never read ; so little sometimes is criticism the effect of judgment . It is necessary to ...
... afterwards too weak for the malignity of faction . In this poem is a very confident and discriminate character of Spenser , whose work he had then never read ; so little sometimes is criticism the effect of judgment . It is necessary to ...
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... afterwards called , by Smith , " the best Latin poem since the " Æneid . " Praise must not be too rigorously examined ; but the performance cannot be denied to be vigorous and elegant . Having yet no public employment , he obtained ( in ...
... afterwards called , by Smith , " the best Latin poem since the " Æneid . " Praise must not be too rigorously examined ; but the performance cannot be denied to be vigorous and elegant . Having yet no public employment , he obtained ( in ...
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... afterwards Lord Carlton ; and Addison , having under- taken the work , communicated it to the Treasury while it was yet advanced no further than the simile of the angel , and was immediately rewarded by succeeding Mr. Locke in the place ...
... afterwards Lord Carlton ; and Addison , having under- taken the work , communicated it to the Treasury while it was yet advanced no further than the simile of the angel , and was immediately rewarded by succeeding Mr. Locke in the place ...
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