Lives of the English Poets: Smith-SavageOctagon Books, 1967 - English poetry |
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Page 204
... poem neither ancient nor modern 2. His mention of Mars and Bellona 3 , and his com- parison of Marlborough to the Eagle that bears the thunder of Jupiter , are all puerile and unaffecting ; and yet more despicable is the long tale told ...
... poem neither ancient nor modern 2. His mention of Mars and Bellona 3 , and his com- parison of Marlborough to the Eagle that bears the thunder of Jupiter , are all puerile and unaffecting ; and yet more despicable is the long tale told ...
Page 306
... poem of which the tendency was to reclaim the nation from the pride of conquest to the pleasures of tranquillity . How far Tickell , whom Swift afterwards mentioned as Whiggissimus , had then con- nected himself with any party I know ...
... poem of which the tendency was to reclaim the nation from the pride of conquest to the pleasures of tranquillity . How far Tickell , whom Swift afterwards mentioned as Whiggissimus , had then con- nected himself with any party I know ...
Page 382
... poem on her birth - day , to which he gave the odd title of Volunteer Laureat . The event of this essay he has himself related in the following letter , which he prefixed to the poem when he afterwards reprinted it in The Gentleman's ...
... poem on her birth - day , to which he gave the odd title of Volunteer Laureat . The event of this essay he has himself related in the following letter , which he prefixed to the poem when he afterwards reprinted it in The Gentleman's ...
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