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... Whose corpfe might feem a conftellation . A At the university he does not appear to have been eager of poetical diftinction , or to have lavished his early wit either on fictiti- ous fubjects or public occafions . He pro- bably ...
... Whose corpfe might feem a conftellation . A At the university he does not appear to have been eager of poetical diftinction , or to have lavished his early wit either on fictiti- ous fubjects or public occafions . He pro- bably ...
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... whose works have not yet been thought to deferve the care of collecting them , who died forgotten in an hofpital , and whofe latter years were spent in contriving fhows for fairs , and car- rying an elegy or epithalamium , of which the ...
... whose works have not yet been thought to deferve the care of collecting them , who died forgotten in an hofpital , and whofe latter years were spent in contriving fhows for fairs , and car- rying an elegy or epithalamium , of which the ...
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Samuel Johnson. 1 made the city poet , whose annual office was to describe the glories of the Mayor's day . Of thefe bards he was the laft , and feems not much to have deferved even this degree of regard , if it was paid to his political ...
Samuel Johnson. 1 made the city poet , whose annual office was to describe the glories of the Mayor's day . Of thefe bards he was the laft , and feems not much to have deferved even this degree of regard , if it was paid to his political ...
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... lectual vigour deferts them in conversation ; whom merriment confufes , and objection difconcerts ; whose bashfulness restrains their exertion , and fuffers them not to speak 1 till the time of fpeaking is paft ; or till * 92 DRY D E N.
... lectual vigour deferts them in conversation ; whom merriment confufes , and objection difconcerts ; whose bashfulness restrains their exertion , and fuffers them not to speak 1 till the time of fpeaking is paft ; or till * 92 DRY D E N.
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... whose remarks may be rather termed admonitions than criticisms , he makes little reply ; be- ing , at the age of fixty - eight , attentive to better things than the claps of a playhouse . He complains of Collier's rudeness , and the ...
... whose remarks may be rather termed admonitions than criticisms , he makes little reply ; be- ing , at the age of fixty - eight , attentive to better things than the claps of a playhouse . He complains of Collier's rudeness , and the ...
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