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... poetry , with the addition , " that Poetry , like Love , is a little subject to blindness , which makes her mistake her way to preferments and honours ; and that she retains a dutiful admiration of her father's family ; but divides her ...
... poetry , with the addition , " that Poetry , like Love , is a little subject to blindness , which makes her mistake her way to preferments and honours ; and that she retains a dutiful admiration of her father's family ; but divides her ...
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... poetry of which they exhibit specimens ? If Young be not a lyric poet , he is at least a critic in that sort of poetry ; and if his lyric poetry can be proved bad , it was first proved so by his own criticism . This surely is candid ...
... poetry of which they exhibit specimens ? If Young be not a lyric poet , he is at least a critic in that sort of poetry ; and if his lyric poetry can be proved bad , it was first proved so by his own criticism . This surely is candid ...
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... POETRY ) 39 L De la Mare's ( Walter ) Stories , Essays , and Poems 940 " " " " 162 223 De Quincey's ( Thomas ) Opium Eater . Intro . by Sir G. Douglas . The English Mail Coach and Other Writings . Introduction by S. Hill Burton . 609 ...
... POETRY ) 39 L De la Mare's ( Walter ) Stories , Essays , and Poems 940 " " " " 162 223 De Quincey's ( Thomas ) Opium Eater . Intro . by Sir G. Douglas . The English Mail Coach and Other Writings . Introduction by S. Hill Burton . 609 ...
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WILLIAM CONGREVE 1670172829 | 29 |
JOHN GAY 16881732 | 35 |
THOMAS YALDEN 16711736 | 53 |
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