The Lives of the English Poets: And a Criticism of Their Works, Volume 2Wilson, 1781 |
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... equal to the subject , defired him to propose it to fome better poet . Halifax told him that there was no encouragement for genius ; that worth- lefs men were unprofitably enriched with pub- lic money , without any care to find or em ...
... equal to the subject , defired him to propose it to fome better poet . Halifax told him that there was no encouragement for genius ; that worth- lefs men were unprofitably enriched with pub- lic money , without any care to find or em ...
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... equals ; but his humour was fingular and matchlefs . Bigotry itself must be delighted with the Tory Foxhunter . There are however some strokes less elegant , and lefs decent ; fuch as the Pretender's Jour- nal , in which one topick of ...
... equals ; but his humour was fingular and matchlefs . Bigotry itself must be delighted with the Tory Foxhunter . There are however some strokes less elegant , and lefs decent ; fuch as the Pretender's Jour- nal , in which one topick of ...
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... equal . She always re- membered her own rank , and thought herself entitled to treat with very little ceremony the tutor of her fon . Rowe's ballad of the De- Spairing Shepherd is faid to have been written , either before or after ...
... equal . She always re- membered her own rank , and thought herself entitled to treat with very little ceremony the tutor of her fon . Rowe's ballad of the De- Spairing Shepherd is faid to have been written , either before or after ...
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... equal to Boileau in poetry , and fuperior to him in critical abilities . He seems to have been more delighted with praise than pained by cenfure , and , instead of flackening , quickened his career . Having in two years produced ten ...
... equal to Boileau in poetry , and fuperior to him in critical abilities . He seems to have been more delighted with praise than pained by cenfure , and , instead of flackening , quickened his career . Having in two years produced ten ...
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... equal diverfity in the difpofitions and manners of " mankind ; whence it comes to pass , that as ( c many monftrous and abfurd productions are " found in the moral as in the intellectual " world . How furprising is it to obferve ...
... equal diverfity in the difpofitions and manners of " mankind ; whence it comes to pass , that as ( c many monftrous and abfurd productions are " found in the moral as in the intellectual " world . How furprising is it to obferve ...
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