Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1952 - English poetry |
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... afterwards satirised with equal justice , or that the poet was dazzled with the appearance of virtue , and found the man whom he had celebrated , when he had an opportunity of examining him more narrowly , unworthy of the panegyrick ...
... afterwards satirised with equal justice , or that the poet was dazzled with the appearance of virtue , and found the man whom he had celebrated , when he had an opportunity of examining him more narrowly , unworthy of the panegyrick ...
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... afterwards produce any thing of such unexampled excellence . Those performances , which strike with wonder , are combinations of skilful genius with happy casualty ; and it is not likely that any felicity , like the discovery of a new ...
... afterwards produce any thing of such unexampled excellence . Those performances , which strike with wonder , are combinations of skilful genius with happy casualty ; and it is not likely that any felicity , like the discovery of a new ...
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... afterwards lord Cobham . His father , purposing to educate him for the Church , sent him first to Eton , and afterwards to Oxford ; but he was seduced to a more airy mode of life , by a commission in a troop of horse procured him by his ...
... afterwards lord Cobham . His father , purposing to educate him for the Church , sent him first to Eton , and afterwards to Oxford ; but he was seduced to a more airy mode of life , by a commission in a troop of horse procured him by his ...
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