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Page 280
... reader . At last , without any further contention with his modesty , or any awe of the name of Dryden , he gave us a complete English Æneid , which I am sorry not to see joined in this publication with his other poems . It would have ...
... reader . At last , without any further contention with his modesty , or any awe of the name of Dryden , he gave us a complete English Æneid , which I am sorry not to see joined in this publication with his other poems . It would have ...
Page 291
... reader eminently elegant , was so much provoked by his odd utterance , that he snatched the paper from his hands , and told him that he did not understand his own verses . The biographer of Thomson has remarked , that an author's life ...
... reader eminently elegant , was so much provoked by his odd utterance , that he snatched the paper from his hands , and told him that he did not understand his own verses . The biographer of Thomson has remarked , that an author's life ...
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... reader from weariness . His Imitations of Spenser are very successfully performed , both with respect to the metre , the language , and the fiction ; and being engaged at once by the excellence of the sentiments and the artifice of the ...
... reader from weariness . His Imitations of Spenser are very successfully performed , both with respect to the metre , the language , and the fiction ; and being engaged at once by the excellence of the sentiments and the artifice of the ...
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WILLIAM CONGREVE 1670172829 | 29 |
THOMAS YALDEN 16711736 | 53 |
WILLIAM SOMERVILE 16921742 | 65 |
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