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Page 146
... poetical life began nearly together . In his eighteenth year he wrote the poem that appears in his works , on The Prince's Escape at St. Andero - a piece which justifies the observation made by one of his editors , that he attained , by ...
... poetical life began nearly together . In his eighteenth year he wrote the poem that appears in his works , on The Prince's Escape at St. Andero - a piece which justifies the observation made by one of his editors , that he attained , by ...
Page 173
... poetical power . His Sacred Poems do not please like some of his other works ; but before the fatal fifty - five , had he written on the same subjects , his success would hardly have been better . It has been the frequent lamentation of ...
... poetical power . His Sacred Poems do not please like some of his other works ; but before the fatal fifty - five , had he written on the same subjects , his success would hardly have been better . It has been the frequent lamentation of ...
Page 356
... poetical justice , which is always one of his favourite principles . " Tis certainly the duty of every tragic poet , by an exact distribution of a poetical justice , to imitate the Divine dis- pensation and to inculcate a particular ...
... poetical justice , which is always one of his favourite principles . " Tis certainly the duty of every tragic poet , by an exact distribution of a poetical justice , to imitate the Divine dis- pensation and to inculcate a particular ...
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WILLIAM CONGREVE 1670172829 | 29 |
George Granville LORD LANSDOWN 1665173435 | 35 |
INTRODUCTION by L ArcherHind | 44 |
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